is 3800 faster than x2 4800?

[argoldst]

I was going to buy a puter from predator gaming pc and the guy told me that the 3800 is actually faster in gaming than the x2 4800. Most reviews I have seen seem to show the x2 4800 as faster but not much.

I am getting fed bs so he can sell some inventory or is he right?

 

[ssvegeta1010]

They are at the same clock speed, but the 4800+ has a 1MB cache instead of a 512K cache. The 4800+ also has dual cores, so it will be MUCH better in multi-tasking and handling multi-threaded apps. Gaming should be about the same with each, but with the 4800+ you could handle another task while gaming, without a large amount of performance loss.

If you have enough money, go for the 4800+, or buy a 4200+/4400+ and overclock.

 

[theMan]

they both run at 2.4ghz. the x2 might run hotter because it has 2 cores.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

The 4800+ is slightly faster than a 3800+ in current single threaded games because of the extra cache, they both run at 2.4ghz.

The 4800+ will allow you to do two or more CPU intense apps at the same time, like playing a game while encoding a video, can't do that with a 3800+.

In multi-threaded apps (which will include games within the next year) and HT enabled apps the 4800+ will absolutely destroy the 3800+

If mainly a gamer and multi-tasking is not a big concern and your likely to upgrade in the next year or two the 3800+ will suit you well. However if you want the multi-tasking capabilities and/or use a lot of multi-threaded apps like video encoding or you want your machine to last 4-5 years go with the 4800+ (or 4400+ and overclock it)

 

[coomar]

background tasks can also run off the 2nd cpu, virus scan, p2p, firewall giving you a slight performance boost

 

[gobucks]

i don't understand why people keep recommending high end single core processors. If you want a $150 processor, fine, maybe dual core isn't for you yet, but if you're looking to spend $400-500 on a CPU, it really should be a dual core. Look at the performance difference - 200MHz here and there hardly does anything for your performance - maybe accounting for an extra 5% in your games. The extra cache is the same story, only even more minimal, maybe 2-3%. Yet with the X2s, you get gains close to 100% in pretty much every area of weakness that the A64 architecture ever had (multitasking, encoding, multithreaded apps), and no performance degredation in single apps. That impresses me way more. In fact, due to the A64 single core's crappy sceduling, sometimes you see 300-400% gains with dual core in heavy multitasking, simply because the scheduling is so much better. Throw in the fact that you can download files, encode a DivX movie, and play a game with virtually no performance degredation, and I think it's totally worth it.

 

[imported_Kensai]

The X2 will be faster.