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Alright, so I got a new laptop and I still have my old laptop. The new laptop has an Intel Celeron 1.6 GHZ processor and the old one has an Intel Dual-core 2.0 GHZ processor.

At first I thought the old one is obviously the better processor because of the greater clock speed, but then I did a system info check and realised that the Celeron processor is actually a Sandy Bridge i3/i5/i7 processor. And I know those are better than the old dual-cores. Still, I'm not sure, so please help me out.

Here are the details.

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Old laptop:

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*CYBER-LOGIC (Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525)

Summary

Number of Physical Processors 1

Number of Cores per Processor 2

Number of Logical Processors 2

CPU #1 Intel Pentium

CPU Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz

CPU Code Name Merom

Vendor GenuineIntel

Number of Bits 64

Instruction Set MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, ET64, XD, EST

Platform Name Socket P (478)

Revision M0

Technology 65 nm

Original Clock 2000 MHz

Original System Clock 166 MHz

Original Multiplier 12.1

CPU Clock 2000 MHz

System Clock 166.3 MHz

FSB 665.1 MHz

Number of Cores 2

Core #1

Speed 1330.2 MHz

Multiplier 8.0

Core #2

Speed 1662.8 MHz

Multiplier 10.0

Turbo Boost Not Supported

Virtual Technology Not Supported

SLAT Not Supported

Hyper Threading Not Supported

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NEW laptop:

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*USER-PC (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 300E4Z/300E5Z/300E7Z)

Summary

Number of Physical Processors 1

Number of Cores per Processor 2

Number of Logical Processors 2

CPU #1 Intel Core i3/i5/i7

CPU Name Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU B815 @ 1.60GHz

CPU Code Name Sandy Bridge

Vendor GenuineIntel

Number of Bits 64

Instruction Set MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, ET64, XD, VMX, EST

Platform Name Socket 988B rPGA

Revision D2

Technology 32 nm

Original Clock 1600 MHz

Original System Clock 100 MHz

Original Multiplier 16.0

CPU Clock 1600 MHz

System Clock 99.8 MHz

Number of Cores 2

Core #1

Speed 798.2 MHz

Multiplier 8.0

Core #2

Speed 798.2 MHz

Multiplier 8.0

Turbo Boost Not Supported

Virtual Technology Enabled

SLAT Supported

Hyper Threading Disabled

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It's pretty hard to quantify "better". – Shinrai Jan 29 at 15:12
Well, which one is faster overall? Or more efficient, I guess. Technically the older Dual-core one has a faster clock speed, but surely the Sandy Bridge one must have advantages? I have no idea. – Cyber-Logic Jan 29 at 15:18
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Sorry, let me be more specific - this is really way too subjective to properly answer. Which one will perform faster or more efficiently depends very specifically on the exact workload that it's doing. There are some optimizations in the newer processors for certain tasks, but with older unoptimized code you might be better served with the higher clockspeed. This is just really impossible to answer definitively (and extended debates without a solid answer aren't really a good fit around here). – Shinrai Jan 29 at 15:25
Alright. I guess I'll have to do some heavy H.264 transcoding of the same clip on both laptops and see how it goes for myself. – Cyber-Logic Jan 29 at 15:28
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I would not have invested in a 1.6GHz Celeron for H.264 encoding... – Darth Android Jan 29 at 15:49
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closed as not constructive by Shinrai, Tog, CharlieRB, Dave M, BBlake Jan 29 at 17:42

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