alansupra94
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Which is faster and why? I have both and I am wondering what will be faster?
Thanks
Alan
Thanks
Alan
The core is an older chip. its not 64 bit, so its not futureproofed. Also, its slow as it doesnt have its own memory unit on the chip itself, which also makes it terribly slow for floating point calculations,
The core2 is newer, supports 64 bit, and fixes many of the shortcomings of the original core.
Go for the core2.
The core2 adds more FPUs and SSE units , which reduces this bottleneck. Also it has an extra ALU which speeds up tasks which make use of two threads (many games use one thread to perform one calculation, and another to do a seperate one, then they want to do something with the results. As the core2 has 3 ALUs as opposed to two, this makes it much faster as it allows complex calculations without having to put the result in main memory or on the stack.