Cores vs GHz

[Rojlani]

What exactly are the more Cores instead of GHz for?

More Threads have the more Cores, but what usage exactly are they better at?

 

[MalakiArtook]

short answer, single core performance is ideal for gaming more cores are better for editing and such.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Multithreaded apps benefit from multi core CPUS. While single threaded apps benefit from higher Ghz cores.

 

[sizzling]

You can't really compare CPU's by ghz.

 

[InvalidError]

More threads are good for massively parallelizable stuff like video effects processing, finite element analysis and other large matrix math.

"More GHz" is more useful for applications that tend to be bottlenecked by their main thread such as the bulk of games out there and the UI of just about all software.

 

[Rojlani]

Thanks,

So what gaming performance would you suggest for Xeon E5-2630v3(8x2.4GHz)? Would it be like a i7-4770K (4x4GHz) or something - the half?

 

[Rojlani]

(meant 4790K) . . .

 

[InvalidError]

(meant 4790K) . . .

For gaming, you would be much better off with the i7-4790k since most games are moderately if not poorly threaded - they rarely make significant use of more than two cores. A 2.4GHz Xeon is no match for a 4GHz i7 in gaming because practically no games are anywhere near sufficiently threaded to leverage more than four cores.

 

[Undying89]

Yes, even the 4690k would outperform any Xeon due faster cores. Games are single-threaded thats why core clock is still the king.