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Core 2 Duo vs. Core 2 Extreme in Imac

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ks-man

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How big of a difference is the extreme vs. the duo in the Imac line?

Is there a bigger difference then just going from 2.4GHZ to 2.8GHZ? How would a 2.8GHZ Duo perform relative to a 2.8GHZ Extreme?

Thanks for the help.
 
Chasing numbers in benchmarks like this basically means you will never be happy with what you have.

I'm happy. :)
 
jesusplay said:
wow.......which current mac has the best graphics card:confused:
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Relative to what you'd expect, the MacBook Pro.

The iMac graphics cards are a bit of a shame, but not anywhere near to the extent of the MacPro, which really should have a seriously powerful card considering how much they cost.

While the MacMini has a GM950, this is more than suitable for the kind of things the MacMini is aimed at. The MacBook's X3100 is okay, and while it could be better, isn't all that bad.



As for the C2D vs. C2E thing, the C2E outperforms the base level MacPro when it comes to straight forward number crunching, but ultimately isn't as fast due to the RAM side of things.
 
ks-man said:
How big of a difference is the extreme vs. the duo in the Imac line?

Is there a bigger difference then just going from 2.4GHZ to 2.8GHZ? How would a 2.8GHZ Duo perform relative to a 2.8GHZ Extreme?

Thanks for the help.
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The 2.8 C2D and the 2.8 Core 2 Extreme are the same processor.
I totally hate to say this but as much as I hate Windows it's profiler is better than OS X's. In Windows it shows exactly what processor and GPU are in my iMac and OS X does not.

So in Windows it shows Intel X7900 Core 2 Extreme @ 2.8Ghz for the CPU and Mobility Radeon 2600XT for the GPU.

In OS X it shows Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 Ghz and for the GPU it shows Radeon HD2600.

I hate that OS X sort of gives a falsehood of what you are actually getting and it confuses people like the OP.
 
Killyp said:
As for the C2D vs. C2E thing, the C2E outperforms the base level MacPro when it comes to straight forward number crunching, but ultimately isn't as fast due to the RAM side of things.
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Well depends if what your doing is multi-threaded to run on 4 cores or not.
 
I have to say that the 2.8 that I have wasn't that impressive until i added the extra 2mg of ram. I think it's more important to have 4mg of ram than worry about the processor speed.
 
:( Astounding that the Radeon would be outperformed at all by the Nvidia card, considering the time between those two models... My unlikely hopes for MacWorld include a better video card for the iMac.
 
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