The argument here is not that clock rate "doesn't matter with new chips." It is that clock rate among different architectures are not apples and oranges!
You are not understanding what turbo boost is, and are getting too caught up in the base clock on the i7 720qm, as others continue to tell you. You say dolphin is dual threaded. This means that the i7 will turbo boost to 2.4 ghz if it is using two cores. However, each core in the i7 uses hyperthreading, which means the i7 may use one core operating at a speed of 2.8 ghz. These scores are not for you to compare (apples and oranges), but to show that the i7 720qm does not run at stock 1.60 ghz on any application, unless it will make use of more than seven threads, and at such high threads clock will not matter as highly over power requirements. Compare that 2.8 ghz speed on a brand new architecture to that 3 ghz core 2 duo. Doesn't look to spiffy now, does it? You may even try comparing that 3 ghz core 2 duo to a 3.2 ghz pentium 4.
People don't just turn off turbo boost, unless they are doing something special with their processor (i.e. overclocking) turbo boost is built into the processor like your q6600 has four cores. It's called powergating, the brand new six core amds are doing it lol (though not as well). This is a legitimate way of reducing power consumption, so that these newer, more efficient processors can do better then those core 2 duos in the same power envelope. Fact is the processor won't let you run dolphin at a low speed unless it was broken.
Quote:Unfortunately since dolphin is dual threaded and doesn't benefit from a large cache, out of order execution, high memory bandwidth, or any other advantages that the newer chips have it's performance per clock is on par with a core 2 duo IN DOLPHIN. A core 2 duo @ 3 GHz would cream an i7 720m/920m in dolphin.
You are not understanding what turbo boost is, and are getting too caught up in the base clock on the i7 720qm, as others continue to tell you. You say dolphin is dual threaded. This means that the i7 will turbo boost to 2.4 ghz if it is using two cores. However, each core in the i7 uses hyperthreading, which means the i7 may use one core operating at a speed of 2.8 ghz. These scores are not for you to compare (apples and oranges), but to show that the i7 720qm does not run at stock 1.60 ghz on any application, unless it will make use of more than seven threads, and at such high threads clock will not matter as highly over power requirements. Compare that 2.8 ghz speed on a brand new architecture to that 3 ghz core 2 duo. Doesn't look to spiffy now, does it? You may even try comparing that 3 ghz core 2 duo to a 3.2 ghz pentium 4.
Quote:It is sufficient for most games thanks to turbo boost. I agree with you on this. I would like to point out that this is not what I'm arguing against, I'm arguing against your idea that clock rate doesn't matter with new chips. If he turned off turbo boost and the chip actually ran at 1.6 GHz it would perform terribly in dolphin regardless of anything else, simple because of the low clock rate.
People don't just turn off turbo boost, unless they are doing something special with their processor (i.e. overclocking) turbo boost is built into the processor like your q6600 has four cores. It's called powergating, the brand new six core amds are doing it lol (though not as well). This is a legitimate way of reducing power consumption, so that these newer, more efficient processors can do better then those core 2 duos in the same power envelope. Fact is the processor won't let you run dolphin at a low speed unless it was broken.