What exactly is Single Thread Rating for a quad core processor? Is it as good as the CPU Mark number, in case the processor had single core, instead of 4 cores? Can you please give examples/scenarios/usecases in which we can utilize this Single Thread Rating?
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If software was coded to only use a single thread (and a lot of software is) then single threaded performance is important. This assumes you only have one active application running which has significant CPU load.
If the software can use many threads (and isn't bottle necked by the disk, RAM, internet speeds or GPU) then multithreaded result is more important. Same for running many CPU intensive applications at the same time.
Javascript running on a web page, for example, is all single threaded.
Repagination of a huge Word document is single threaded.
Reading and writing data from the disk is nearly always single threaded.
Modern games can typically use 4 to 8 cores before RAM and GPU become the bottleneck.
Video encoding will often use all available cores however.
You can also find some details about the benchmarks here.
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