Is a 8 core faster than other cores

truecamerontalley

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Is a 8 Core Faster than cores that are 4 core or 2 core? Also i am not talking about any other core bigger than 8. I mean when i say this is it faster than 4 Cores or 2 cores.
 
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It depends on the specific software. IF the software only has enough simultaneous tasks to keep two cores busy, then clock speed usually wins. BUT if the software can partition the workload to keep 8 cores busy, then the 8 core will be faster. Clock speed can only compete to a certain level. After that more cores wins.

kanewolf

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It depends on the specific software. IF the software only has enough simultaneous tasks to keep two cores busy, then clock speed usually wins. BUT if the software can partition the workload to keep 8 cores busy, then the 8 core will be faster. Clock speed can only compete to a certain level. After that more cores wins.
 
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blankcr8

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Not exactly sure what you mean by this, but generally an 8 core will have more overall power than a 2 or 4 core, but this doesn't necessarily translate to gaming, since there are really no games that are optimized for more than 6 cores, with most being optimized for around 4.

Although an 8 core is usually much faster than a 2 core CPU, an i3 7350k actually beats a couple of the fx 8 cores, even in something like cinebench which uses all cores fully.