Dual Core vs Core 2 Duo

bylromarha · 27 August 2009 at 5:01PM

Looking at laptops and what's the difference?!

There seems to be no website that puts processors in order of spec-is a core 2 solo better than dual core?

Where do Athlons fit with Intel speeds?

my head is hurting!

£$&*"($£&( · 27 August 2009 at 5:25PM

Here's a good place to compare

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

Core 2 Duo are the latest technology but more recent Dual Core will be better than older Core 2 Duo. Dual Core are cheaper generally. Most AMD laptop processors are Turions though they use the name Athlon sometimes. It seems the fastest AMD laptop processors are not as fast as the fastest Intel processors but will be as good as many options. Of course it's really much more complex than that.

KingL · 27 August 2009 at 5:29PM

Useful thread here

bylromarha · 27 August 2009 at 6:44PM

grahawk wrote: »

Here's a good place to compare

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

Core 2 Duo are the latest technology but more recent Dual Core will be better than older Core 2 Duo. Dual Core are cheaper generally. Most AMD laptop processors are Turions though they use the name Athlon sometimes. It seems the fastest AMD laptop processors are not as fast as the fastest Intel processors but will be as good as many options. Of course it's really much more complex than that.

Fab. Just the sort of basic explanation I needed. I finally have somewhere to start and a website to compare processors:beer:

Dual Core vs Core 2 Duo

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