cores vs absolute ghz?

Just wondering if there was a general rule would 2 cores at 3.06 ghz be faster or 4 cores at 2.53ghz?

More cores are better if you are running more than just a single application or doing things like decoding video since that can happen on another thread, and therefore happen asynchronously on another CPU. Higher Ghz means the same process on the faster clock will run faster. I generally prefer more cores to higher clock speed cause I like to do things where I have a few different processes running on the same computer - for example have reaktor run on one cpu and Touch run on the other and communicate via OSC.

J

cheers, thanks very much for that info

i was wondering, is there any chance of a list being made of what is multithreaded in touch?
or just a little tag on the feature list? might make it easier to decide what is better for a given application?

A quick list is:
Work involved in Touch In/Out OP.
Decoding movies in the Movie In TOP.
Encoding movies in the Movie Out TOP.
Converting SOP data to a format the GPU can render (only relevant to SOPs that cook often).
Audio playback
Video In TOP (reading data from the camera)