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| ozzi22:
Is there diffrent results with windows xp 64 and vista 64? Which is faster? |
| divemaster127:
I'm running vista 64, im sure xp 64 is faster but the drivers were never developed much for it. Also the arcadevga does not support xp 64 dm |
| jdjuggler:
Are there any mame benchmarks to suggests that a quad core processor is faster/slow/same as a core 2 duo processor? And, when I say quad, I don't mean the $500+ processors out there. I referring to something that could be purchased for not much more than a core 2 duo... in the $200-300 range. Thanks, JD |
| taz-nz:
--- Quote from: jdjuggler on December 22, 2007, 05:17:37 pm ---Are there any mame benchmarks to suggests that a quad core processor is faster/slow/same as a core 2 duo processor? And, when I say quad, I don't mean the $500+ processors out there. I referring to something that could be purchased for not much more than a core 2 duo... in the $200-300 range. Thanks, JD --- End quote --- No hs done a full on test of a quad core to date that I know of, I did some testing on a Q6600 at stock speeds, and was less than impressed with the results when compared to a E6850 at stock speeds. Basically those MAME drivers that are multithread gain hugely switching from single to dual core, but only a little more preformance is gained with the switch to quad core, this small preformance gain from the third and four cores is counter by the dual core higher stock clock speed (2.4ghz for the quad, 3.0 ghz for the dual) add to this the fact the dual core can be overclocked a lot more than the quad core, and the dual core becomes the clear winner currently. Now this could change with the release next year of the Q9000 series 45nm quad cores and the possibitly on everyday 4ghz+ overclocker quad cores, but in saying that there is the new E8000 series dual core lauching at the same time offer up the possiblity of 4.5-5.0ghz overclocks. In the end MAME cares more about clock speed than just about anything else and further multithread optimisations are problably going to be slow to come, add to that the fact that only about 2% of all non-MAME software actual make full use of the extra two cores in a quad, I'm sticking with dual core for now and plan to swap my e6850 for a core 2 duo E8500 in the new year. |
| joeH:
Will the difference in L2 cache affect performance? For example, e2180 (1M L2 cache, 10x multiplier) vs. e4500 (2M L2 cache, 11x multiplier)? Both can easily hit the 3.0ghz range on stock cooling, however, currently there is about a $40 price difference between the two. |
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