Re:My dual core can beat up your quad core, and other mobile...
by MarkPNeyer on Sunday February 19, 2012 @03:19AM
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a computer is not a machine that does computing. it is a primarily a machine that moves information around, and occasionally performs computation on it.
as such, a quad core will saturday the processor - memory bandwidth much sooner than a dual core chip will, which stalls the pipeline. couple that with that four cores will abuse the cache much more than two will and you have a recipe for slowdown.
as such, a quad core will saturday the processor - memory bandwidth much sooner than a dual core chip will, which stalls the pipeline. couple that with that four cores will abuse the cache much more than two will and you have a recipe for slowdown.