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Dual Core Procs: What kind of performance boost?

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100% increase in performance over an equally-clocked single core CPU? 50% increase?

I was planning to build a new system in Q1 2005 but now I wonder if I should wait until Q3 when these new procs will appear.

 
Depends on what you do.
For Seti@Home, probably ~100%.
For Doom3, probably very hard to measure any difference at all, except for the fact that dual core chips will be clocked lower to fit within a reasonable thermal budget.

It's like an SMP system now, apps coded for it will benefit, and if you run a bunch of those apps, you likely know about it.
 
I think AMD said (remember it came from AMD) that it would be like 90% efficient on the dual core but all the single threaded applications won't take advantage so all the software has to catch up with the hardware so there actually may be some slow down on some applications. Time will tell. I wouldn't wait for dual core because the dual core AMD's will fit into existing socket 939 so why wait to enjoy fast performance?
 
Given the fact that most games are single threaded and that the very first dualcores CPU out will run at lower speed than the top notch singlecore CPUs, my guess is that they will perform inferiorly in games or any type of single thread application.

It's another story if you are going to multitask tho, but I wouldn't expect any increase when it comes to gaming knowing no one is going to encode movies and play games at the same time.
 
Originally posted by: deanx0r
Given the fact that most games are single threaded and that the very first dualcores CPU out will run at lower speed than the top notch singlecore CPUs, my guess is that they will perform inferiorly in games or any type of single thread application.

It's another story if you are going to multitask tho, but I wouldn't expect any increase when it comes to gaming knowing no one is going to encode movies and play games at the same time.
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I do. Not that often, but I do, and it doesn;t slow me down at all, even with 2 F@H clients running.
 
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