i3-4160 and i5-4460 What's the difference?
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Solved by Mattrixx,
So if the i3-4160 is 3.6ghz dual core hyper threaded to 4 virtual cores, does that make it better than the i5-4460 3.2ghz 4 cores?
I mean 3.6ghz is a higher clock speed.
Is it (3.6x4 = 14.4 > 3.2x4 = 12.8)?
What information am I missing here?
Oh dear..................... A lot of information I'm afraid.
You can't quite measure CPU performance in terms of "cores multiplied by speed".
HT doesn't quite work like that. It's mostly a "pipeline" improvement. The i3 is a dual core HT chip (2 physical cores, 4 logical cores), while the i5 is a quad core (4 physical cores, 4 logical cores). The general consensus is that HT really only adds about 20% in terms of power. I recommend you watch this and come back with some new-found knowledge.
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