Core clock and boost clock

[Nicholas Rodriguez]

I Just have a general question about what is more important and what to look for in terms of core clock or boost clock ?I understand obviously the more cores that the cpu has the  faster it is but I'm just trying to understand in what look for when it comes to speed ?

[DarthBudgie]

6 minutes ago, Nicholas Rodriguez said:

I Just have a general question about what is more important and what to look for in terms of core clock or boost clock ?I understand obviously the more cores that the cpu has the  faster it is but I'm just trying to understand in what look for when it comes to speed ?

both boost clock and core clock i have a 10700 i thought the base clock was a bit low at 2.90 ghz

but it turbos up to near 4.8ghz 

and it also depends on Cache and a few other things like wattage and bios settings

[YoungBlade]

Across architectures, those numbers don't mean anything, even core count. You need to look at reviews and benchmarks to see which CPU is better in a given application. More cores is not necessarily faster. The 5600X is faster in all applications over the 2700X despite being a 6 core chip vs an 8 core one.

 

Within a CPU family, you can use clocks, cache, core counts, etc as a rough guide, but even that can be misleading. You need to have a good understanding of how the architecture scales across the family with regards to those metrics, which is a bit of a Catch 22: to know how well a CPU will perform relatively, you have to know how it performs relatively.

[Nicholas Rodriguez]

20 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

Across architectures, those numbers don't mean anything, even core count. You need to look at reviews and benchmarks to see which CPU is better in a given application. More cores is not necessarily faster. The 5600X is faster in all applications over the 2700X despite being a 6 core chip vs an 8 core one.

 

Within a CPU family, you can use clocks, cache, core counts, etc as a rough guide, but even that can be misleading. You need to have a good understanding of how the architecture scales across the family with regards to those metrics, which is a bit of a Catch 22: to know how well a CPU will perform relatively, you have to know how it performs relatively.

Makes alot sense actually. I'll definitely do that in future. Check the reviews and benchmark before you buy got it.