THE INTEL CORE i7 The Core i7 is Intels current most powerful processor, most have clock speeds or GHz just below the absolute best Core 2 Duo processor or higher than the Core 2 Duo and unlike the best Core 2 Duo processors have larger cache (the larger the cache, the faster the processor can work), 4 physical processing cores instead of 2 and with hyper-threading 4 cores plus 4 virtual cores so almost like having 8 cores in one computer. Obviously the major difference is the amount of processing cores, the more cores your computer has, the more things you can do at once on your computer but overall the i7 kills the Core 2 Duo in terms of performance. Now that does come at a price, i7 processors require DDR3 RAM which is more expensive than the DDR 2 you can get away with Core 2 Duos, it requires more expensive motherboards and if youre buying an i7, to really take advantage of it, expensive graphics cards and large power supplies are necessary as well. Bottom line, because the i7 at least matches the Core 2 Duo in most models on GHz clock speed, has 2 more physical processing cores, 4 more virtual ones (the Core 2 Duo has none) and a larger cache it is definitely a better processor all around.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:00:23 +0000
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