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Intel Core Duo vs P4
Name: Deadhorse Date: November 16, 2007 at 14:48:04 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: P4 2.8 768mb Product: Dell
Comment:
My desk top PC has a Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor, I think I'm about to purchase a lap top with a Intel Core Duo T2080 (1.73GHz)processor, how do these chip stack up against each other?
Name: jefro Date: November 16, 2007 at 15:03:37 Pacific
Reply:
You are talking apples to oranges. A laptop would be built for other uses than speed.
Most dual cores do not fair as well as one might expect. At best they tend to be about 1.5x the speed of a single core. There are only a few times that they tend to get close to a true dual processor smp machine.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.
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Response Number 2
Name: jackbomb Date: November 16, 2007 at 18:06:22 Pacific
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The Core Duo 1.73 is easily faster than the 2.8GHz P4, even in single-threaded apps.
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