Single-threaded performance.

[billw2009]

Trying to get info on how to speed up single-threaded apps. At the moment I have a Core 2 Duo 6850. If I upgrade am I actually going to be able to get better single threaded performance? My 6850 is a couple of years old, but runs at 3GHz. How is getting am i7 that runs at 2.8 going to be better? The application I am specifically thinking of is Dwarf Fortress by the way

 

[hunter315]

The i7 is a different architecture, it gets more done in each clock cycle than the Core 2 does so it will be faster, and with turbo boost it will up the speed to over 3GHz on single threaded apps to give you even better performance.

 

[billw2009]

Thanks for reply.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/Photoshop-CS-3,826.html

Apparently this is an example of a single threaded benchmark. The 8600 beats the i7 Extreme... I assume the 8600 uses the same architecture as the 6850 (being Core 2). Anyone know any other examples of single-threaded bench marks I can check out?

 

[loneninja]

Thanks for reply.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/Photoshop-CS-3,826.html

Apparently this is an example of a single threaded benchmark. The 8600 beats the i7 Extreme... I assume the 8600 uses the same architecture as the 6850 (being Core 2). Anyone know any other examples of single-threaded bench marks I can check out?

Keep in mind the 8600 is also faster clock for clock than your 6850, it's still the Core2 architecture but it's a modified 45nm shrink with more L2 cache.