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iraszl

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Message 52907 - Posted: 2 Mar 2014, 4:22:20 UTC

What cpu will produce better results? More cores or more speed? As an example which one will win: 4x4Ghz or 8x2Ghz?
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Message 52912 - Posted: 2 Mar 2014, 16:10:32 UTC - in response to Message 52907.  

What cpu will produce better results? More cores or more speed? As an example which one will win: 4x4Ghz or 8x2Ghz?


Depending on architecture and other hardware related things. For both with the same hardware = equal
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Message 52946 - Posted: 3 Mar 2014, 19:31:54 UTC

It will also make a difference on if they are actual cores or hyper threaded...
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