Soul Harvester said:. You're completely wrong with your analogy. If you had the most basic understand of how a modern multitasking OSkernel operates, from Linux to Windows to Mac OS X, you'd understand why your statement is completely wrong. You cannot liken cores to adding additional "horsepower" to a computer, nor can you liken additional cores to ANY sort of linear performance gain metric. You cannot compare a CPU to an engine.
THAT is comparing "apples to oranges". An engine produces force to operate the drivetrain. A CPU is a decision-making calcuator, intepreting instructions and performing operations on those instructions to change register states and memory states. There's hundreds of factors involved in how additional processing power scales on a CPU.
Things like the length of the pipeline, the amount of L1 cache available, the failure rate of instruction prediction, the cost of a failed instruction, et cetera. Even in true multi-threaded applications, there's no guarantee that you're going to see a linear increase in performance just by adding additional cores. Ultimately each individual CPU is going to share resources with other parts of the system, and this includes interaction with the OS.
And not to mention we are dealing with hardware and software in , not or For the overwhelming majority of applications and games available today, there will be little to no benefit in seeking more cores with a lowered clockspeed over a smaller number of cores with a substantially higher clockspeed.
Unless someone can truly justify the need for a quad-core system, such as a multi-threaded CAD applications, it's much easier to justify saving money on a dual-core CPU. Yes, processors with dozens or even hundreds of "cores" is the future. Similar threads. Enthusiast manages to run Windows 11 on a single-core Intel Pentium 4 chip from 15 years Replies 28 Views Oct 24, captaincranky. Replies 2 Views Apr 16, Crinkles.
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Seagate demos industry's first NVMe hard drive Fastturtle replied 43 minutes ago. Quad Core or Multi Core processor wont let you down in such cases. The largest boost in performance will likely to be noticed in improved response time while running CPU hungry applications, like antivirus scan, searching for file and folders, ripping HD movies, large File conversions. I remember once i had around thousand contacts added in my Yahoo ID and i was in favour to save archive of each and every chat with each and every contact.
Because there were thousands of files and folders and while binding them tosingle file takes a whole CPU power. Same waiting will be there while extracting the same file. Anyways it took era to complete the job, this could have been little fast if i used Quad Core based system with faster Hard drive and top performer RAM.
Though operating system OS support is more important, but adjustments to existing software are required to maximize utilization of performance boost provided by multi-core processors. Also, the ability of multi-core processors to increase applicationperformance depends on the use of multiple threads within applications. The situation is improving day by day as now of we have less choices left. The Crytek has developed similar technologies for CryEngine 2, which powers their game, Crysis.
These days Quad Core 2. What a Quad Core processor will do is add an additional two cores to the system, if anapplication can take advantage of the more advanced multi-threading abilities of a quad-core system, you will likely see some performance advantage. If the applicationwill not, you will not see any extra performance unless the quad core processor of choice outclasses the dual core processor, for example the newest Intel Core i7 , compared to a dual core Pentium D, will be faster at any application, due to other reasons like more efficient interface to the memory.
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You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Take an example : If automatic virus scan starts while you are watching your favourite movie, Theapplication running the movie is far less likely to be starved of processor power, whereas the antivirus program will be assigned to a different processor core than the one running the movie.
Application Dual Core 3. As we see in chart, only rendering and encoding tasks showing some performance gains, and in rest of the war, dual core beats the quad core. It solves the problem of overheating of Intel Pentium D without compromising on the performance. The new architecture of Intel core2 duo makes it a lot better processor that runs cool.
Most importantly the Intel core2 duo is a super over clocker. Core i3 is like Core 2 duo but with different architecture and different fabrication size for its transistors. Dual Core and Pentium D are history. May 25,
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