Core I & core 2 DUO ?

Clerk_Kent

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  • Jan 17, 2008
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    Ofcource Core i5 & i7 is way better than Core 2 Duo .. But the Core i series prices are very high ( yet ;) )

    Explanation:

    (Difference between Intel Core i7 and Core 2 Duo)

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    The Core i7 is a completely new architecture which is much faster and more efficient than the Core 2 Duo. Currently only the Core i7 920, 945 and 965 XE versions are available. Of that the Core i7 920 is available at just $284 which makes it a great buy. It offers better performance than almost all Core 2 Duo processors.

    Native Quad Core, More Cache and Hyper Threading:
    All the Core i7 processors are Native Quad cores (4 cores), which means that they actually have 4 cores on a single die, while the older Core 2 Duo processors like the Q6600 (2×2 = 4 cores) had two cores on a single die, and two such dies merged together. This increases the processing speed greatly. They also have 256 KB L2 cache per core and a shared 8 MB L3 cache which has proven to be much better than any cache configuration in Core 2 Duo.

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