# Which is faster? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [May 16, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477 "2008-05-16T01:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![travis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/travis/32/13217_2.png) [@travis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/travis)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/1 "2008-05-16T01:02:33Z")
One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor or Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/2 "2008-05-16T01:24:52Z")
Probably the quad-core, but it depends on how your specific software is able to utilize it. ---
**Author:** ![Theros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Theros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Theros)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/3 "2008-05-16T02:43:33Z")
> [@Jeff Wheeler;2326947](#): > > Probably the quad-core, but it depends on how your specific software is able to utilize it. Agreed. That’s really the only difference since both are plenty fast. And aren’t Xenons server CPUs? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/4 "2008-05-16T12:28:05Z")
Yeah, but they can easily be used in a desktop as well. ---
**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/5 "2008-05-16T16:28:06Z")
Generalizing to the extreme, multiple “cores” will improve performance more for people like me, that jump between lot of “CPU light weight” applications such as flash, photoshop, illustrator et cetera. CPU intense applications such as any render software (maya, 3ds, after effects) won’t show as much of a performance boost from multiple cores since they tend to max out their allowance. If you tend to do a lot of things at the same time however, quad cores for zie win. (Just recently bought a macpro dual 3.2 quad core (8 cores) and it’s a beast! sexy beast :P) ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/6 "2008-05-16T18:58:26Z")
2 dual core cpus have 2 blocks of level 2 cache. The quad core cpu has 1 block of level 2 cache. So if you are using a bunch of programs that have nothing to do with each other, the dual core solution is better. If you are using a processor intensive application that has multiple threads sharing resources, the quad core is better. ---
**Author:** ![RichardS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ba0ec/32.png) [@RichardS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RichardS)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/7 "2008-05-20T14:33:45Z")
As already mentioned, depends on the software. ---
**Author:** ![janebush08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@janebush08](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/janebush08)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/8 "2008-05-21T11:34:06Z")
depends on technical specifications… ---
**Author:** ![Jennie\_Jolie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@Jennie\_Jolie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jennie_Jolie)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/9 "2008-05-22T01:07:06Z")
quad might do better but i think both are same it all depends what ya wanna do i guess my 2 cents ---
**Author:** ![nooreyg126](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@nooreyg126](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nooreyg126)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/which-is-faster/260477/10 "2008-05-23T07:08:20Z")
If you are deciding between those two, you should better choose the Quad-Core, it is faster.