🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:48:13 -0400, "deerslayer"
<ds@noemail.com> wrote:

>Colon Terminus wrote:
>> "muzician21" <muzician21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:2b848985-e443-4f11-ae06-b40d51ce5419@b16g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
>>> Trying to understand the breakdown of things as far as dual core
>>> systems. Things got a little murky for me since it isn't simply
>>> Pentium -whatever- and an ever higher gig number.
>>>
>>> I've got a 2.4 gig P4. How does that compare both to early dual cores
>>> and to whatever the current fastest processors are?
>>>
>>> Is there good a site that shows the breakdown of things as far as the
>>> history of processors to present day?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Download, install and run Sisoft SANDRA.
>>
>> You can see a comparison of your systems actual performance versus
>> thousands of other systems.
>
>This was an excellent suggestion unlike the several entries prior.  The 
>short answer of course is that the 2.4GHz P4 is much slower than dual core 
>CPUs even those at slower clock speeds.  SANDRA will show this graphically 
>in its performance module, rating the subject system to average performance 
>of several other CPU types. 
>


Actually, the short answer is performance always has to be
relative to the actual jobs ran, the specific application
and version of that app.  No benchmark, including Sandra,
matters when the actual use can be scrutinized because we're
writing directly to the person wondering what best suits
their needs.