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Originally Posted by aaronspink
What part of the difference between "split evenly" and "shared between" don't you understand? You will be hard pressed to find any cases where there is signifiicant difference in performance between the dual core processors and the prior single core processors at the same frequency for single threaded workloads.
On top of that, there are few workloads outside of HPTC that are bandwidth limited.
Aaron Spink
speaking for myself inc.
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the whole point of having dual cores is that you can multi-task with no performance hit. Joe stated earlier that he frequently games while encoding. On a dual cpu machine this is fine, however, because each has it's own memory. multi-tasking on a dual core will not yield similiar results, because each is using the same pipeline.
i was not talking about running a single thread - what's the point of spending the $$$ on a dual core then? but yes, if you are only doing one task, then there should be minimal difference