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Hevilmystic
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Squallsy said :
amd tends to out do intel on an overall performance basis if you count all cores because theres like twice as many cores

Not necessarily true. AMD's 8 cores were not actually 8 usable cores. An 8 core AMD processor would have 8 'cores', however, 4 of them had to wait until the other 4 were done before they could be used (I believe this is how it works in simple terms?)

8 AMD cores = 4 "modules", each module has 2 cores, however those cores could not work simultaneously... Basically.

A 4 core Intel would beat an 8 core AMD processor honestly.

AMD are actually stepping up their game and producing an 8 core 16 thread processor as well as a 16 core 32 thread processor in early 2017 (probably), so pretty excited. Maybe I can spend even more money on more cores I won't use. Unslain Bosses - Clan

19-Aug-2016 15:46:06 - Last edited on 19-Aug-2016 15:48:48 by Hevilmystic

Hevilmystic
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Squallsy said :
its not so much an issue with it having 8 cores is it as much as programs really not supporting more then 4 cores being in use?

No, it's physically impossible for the "pairs" of cores to do two things at once.

An 8 core AMD processor is split into 4 pairs of two cores

Each pair of cores can only do one calculation between them, as core #2 has to wait for core #1 to finish. On a "real" 8 core, each core can do one calculation regardless of what the other cores are doing. Unslain Bosses - Clan

19-Aug-2016 15:51:36

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