I concur - the Dual Core cannot be twice as fast as a Quadcore - I really 
doubt this.



That's my problem (one of many ;-) - to find a reliable source of 
benchmarks. I do not need something telling me how fast Quake runs - it's 
more a function of the graphics-card anyway - I would like to have a 
reliable source showing the performance of the respective CPUs. So I tried 
here - raytracing is a task that consumes CPU power.



"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4a4b6d6c@news.povray.org...
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> "scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message
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>> > Well, the Q9550 comes with 2x6MB L2 cache at 2.83 GHz, the i7-920 has 8
>> > MB-L3 cache at 2.66 GHz and the AMD has 4x512kB L1 + 6MB L2 at 3.0 GHz.
>> >
>> > And this is my problem - Q9550 is quite fast with plenty of cache, the
> AMD
>> > seems to be fastest with 3 GHz but has less cache, the i7 has least GHz
>> > but newest architecture... and frankly I have no idea how these factors
>> > balance.
>>
>> Check out:
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>> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
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> That doesn't look very, well, reliable, judging by the top entry.
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