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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 183718" data-attributes="member: 828">Q series mean Quad Core. In most appz, the highest end Core 2 Duo CPU outperforms a Core 2 Quad, and this will remain this way for sometime. Remember, there aren't many software that even takes the full advantage of 2 cores. So no point arguing about Quad Core biased software. The only way a Quad Core can out perform a similar speed Dual Core, or even a higher clocked Dual Core is if you render an animation, encode a DVD and play a game at the same time. But for that, you will definitely need 4GB RAM!!!And Core 2 Quad consume at least twice the power of a Core 2 Duo! This is because the current Core 2 Quad (or Kentsfield) CPUs = two Core 2 Duo's in same package. The next Core 2 Quad (er...can't recall the name) will be a "native" quad core CPU = all 4 cores are on the same die and L2 cache will be shared between all 4 cores. Currently there are two L2 caches of 4MB each.On the AMD's end, their quad core will be called K8L which is supposed to be faster than a Core 2 Quad at same clock speed. But the important thing to remember is that Intel will be moving to 45nm process technology in Q4 2007 iirc, and they will have a huge clock speed advantage by then. So even though the K8L will be faster at the same clock speed, Intel will have faster clocked CPUs (I heard it was gonna be about 4GHz or even more) and AMD will again lose - unless the K8L is a monster!</blockquote>

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