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Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham
WTH is the difference in core2duo and Dual Core anyway? C2D sounds to me like some really cheap tatic to attract little children who like "funky" names.
Dual core is the correct english term used for a processor with two cores. triple core for three cores. quad core for four cores, penta, hexa, septa, octa, etc for 5,6,7,8 cores. Why does a reputed company full of intellectuals have to keep such a stupid name like core2duo?
and yes, people in the dad catogary really do need only 1.7Ghz P4 processor, 256 mb ram, Windows XP, 60 GB HDD, camera, speaker, any screen, gma900, and customer support. You can find one of these things for just RS 15000 assembled.
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Man you dont know what you are saying. If by "Dual Core" you mean Pentium D Dual Core, there is a VAST I mean VAST difference between the both.
Prior to C2D, AMD was the king. P4s and Pentium Ds dispite of running at higher clock speeds delivered relatively low performance. They were drawing tremendous amount of heat as well. All this just because of their poor architecture.
When AMD X2 was at its peak, Intel probably hurriedly launched their counter Pentium D Dual Core, which actually architecture wise was or is far inferior than X2s or C2Ds for that matter. Pentium D is not a true Dual Core, its a phesudo Dual Core. In layman tearms it means that there are no two physical cores present, but two singal core chips crammed together on one package or die; tecnically speaking, sharing the same cache and fsb. This obviously didnt help and Pentium Ds were soon discouraged by almost all online tech review sites.
Intel went back to the basic drawing board, and reworked its designed,
decided to scrap Netburst architucture and rely on a new high-performance, low-power design from the Israel-based design team responsible for the Pentium M. This made the appearence of
"Core Duo".
Core Duo (Yonah is the code name) is primarily two Pentium Ms joins together on a single chip. These CPU cores are massaged and tweaked versions of the Pentium M processor. Infact Core Duo's two cores are arguably more tightly integrated than those in AMD's dual-core Athlon. However, Core Duo is not simply two Pentium M processors located side by side on a single chip or package, it's a truly intentional dual-core design. The two cores on the processor share a bus internal to the chip, behind which sits the L2 cache that's shared between the cores.
Intel's same Israely team reworked on this Core Duo architecture and came with a better and advanced desktop version code named
"Conroe" AKA C2D. Its not a fancy name, every code name has its meaning and background.....eg....the chip code-named Willamette and Northwood, based on a microarchitecture called Netburst, became the first product known as Pentium 4.
This chip, however, is different. The microarchitecture is called Core, the chip is code-named Conroe, and the product is called Core 2 Duo.
So where was I.........
Yes reworked on this Core Duo architecture and came C2D. C2D has seperate physical 2 cores, better cache management, short but wide 14-stage pipeline, Core can execute 128-bit SSE instructions in a single clock cycle, rather than the two cycles required by previous architectures. In order to keep up with all this, Core has deeper buffers and more slots for instructions.
To end it dessipates less heat and takes much less power as compared to any Intels or AMD predecessors.
Though there are n number of architectural difference we can count on but I am sure till now people n you reading must have got pretty boared. So I will end here......Intel Core is the present King in all domains and deserves some respect..........cheers n Peace
