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For what sort of tasks is it better to have higher clock speeds and what tasks need more cores? If you had a choice of 4 cores @ 4GHZ or 8 cores @ 2GHZ which would be better for what?

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gaming = faster clock speeds and higher ipc

 

more cores, video editing

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Anything for gaming and editing in the middle is the i5 series 8th gen and on.

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19 minutes ago, Computernaut said:

For what sort of tasks is it better to have higher clock speeds and what tasks need more cores? If you had a choice of 4 cores @ 4GHZ or 8 cores @ 2GHZ which would be better for what?

8 cores@2.0 would be better for pretty much anything other than gaming, but 4 cores @4.0 would be way better at gaming

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Why not 6 cores at 4Ghz?

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20 hours ago, asand1 said:

Why not 6 cores at 4Ghz?

Because for the hypothetical question to work the number of cores times the number of GHz per core has to equal 16.

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22 hours ago, Jrock said:

8 cores@2.0 would be better for pretty much anything other than gaming, but 4 cores @4.0 would be way better at gaming

No it wouldn't be better at anything. If the cores had the same IPC then the 8 core would be at most equal. And as bad as half as fast. Depending on task.

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