Intel Core Duo vs. single core

[gigercom]

This may sound like a stupid question but will a Intel Conroe E6600 2.4ghz core duo operate faster than say a 3.2 ghz single core? Does the core duo just allow you to operate more applications at a fast speed or do the dual cores actually combine speeds and work together when you are only working on a single application?

I just wnat to be sure when I am rendering 3d models the dual cores will actually double my speed. (3ds Max 8.0)

Thanks for any info!

[pullmyfoot]

double post

[pullmyfoot]

uh. yes. it will destroy any p4 upside down even if it was only running a single threaded operation on one core. so its acting like a single core in that way. IMO its better, get it. and dual cores do not combine the two cores unless the programme is designed to take advantage of both cores

[sr71000]

ghz is not a good measure of processor performance! If the application is multi threaded it can use both cores at the same time (most professional rendering programs are!) If not, you still always have multiple things running at the same time. Windows has hundreds of components that are constantly doing small tasks on the processor. With dual core your program can take one core entirely to itself if need be! Lastly, 1 core of a core2duo is soooo much faster than the p4 as pullmyfoot said! As i said before, ghz means nothing these days. It's all about efficiency and at that, the core2duo stomps the p4!

[EXreaction]

Look for yourself.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=2795&p=11

[theedisoneffect]

Now if you had, say, a Core Solo at 3.2ghz, then the single core would kick the absolute god-fearing s**t out of the 2.4ghz dual core in most applications. Except multithreaded ones, of course. Mhz is still a good comparison on similar architectures, just that the P4 is considerably less efficient clock-for-clock than the Core series are.

Of course it's sorta moot, since there's no such thing as a 3.2ghz Core Solo...

[Dj-Icer]

They have created core 2 duo, nearly at the same time when P4 was release to the market. Surprisingly, isn't it? That's how you do business these days.

We don't give out high end tech all out. We give them (consumers) bit by bit. So that, we gain more money.

True, Core 2 duo is way better than P4. It's cheaper too. Sort of It's just like another P5 but with a different name, so that it will feels so heavenly new to the public