Core Speed and Multipler Question


  1. Posts : 8
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #1

    Core Speed and Multipler Question


    I purchased a Dell 8500 XPS with i7 -3770 CPU. I have just run SIW CPU Info and obtained the following:

    Property Value
    FRANK-PC (Dell Inc. XPS 8500)
    Summary
    Number of Physical Processors 1
    Number of Cores per Processor 4
    Number of Logical Processors 8
    CPU #1 Intel Core i3/i5/i7
    CPU Name Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
    CPU Code Name Ivy Bridge
    Vendor GenuineIntel
    Number of Bits 64
    Instruction Set MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, ET64, XD, VMX, SMX, EST
    Platform Name [unknown]
    Revision [unknown]
    Technology 22 nm
    Original Clock 3400 MHz
    Original System Clock 100 MHz
    Original Multiplier 34.0
    CPU Clock 3400 MHz
    System Clock 99.9 MHz
    Number of Cores 4
    Core #1
    Speed 1598.0 MHz
    Multiplier 16.0
    Core #2
    Speed 1598.0 MHz
    Multiplier 16.0
    Core #3
    Speed 1598.0 MHz
    Multiplier 16.0
    Core #4
    Speed 3695.4 MHz
    Multiplier 37.0
    Turbo Boost Enabled
    Virtual Technology Enabled
    SLAT Supported
    Hyper Threading Enabled
    Cache
    L1 Data Cache 4 x 32 KBytes
    L1 Instructions Cache 4 x 32 KBytes
    L2 Cache 4 x 256 KBytes
    L3 Cache 8192 KBytes

    Is it normal to have different speeds and multiplier on cores? ( see core # 4 speed and multiplier above )
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    Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
       #2

    With Turbo boost, when the rest of the cores are idle, one of the cores can be boosted above normal multiplier. A multiplier of 16 indicates cores 1-3 are idle (idle with speedstep will lower your multiplier to a minimum of 16) while 4 is boosted to 3.7 GHz. This gives single threaded applications faster CPU cycles.
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  3. Posts : 8
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
    Thread Starter
       #3

    GeneO said:
    With Turbo boost, when the rest of the cores are idle, one of the cores can be boosted above normal multiplier. A multiplier of 16 indicates cores 1-3 are idle (idle with speedstep will lower your multiplier to a minimum of 16) while 4 is boosted to 3.7 GHz. This gives single threaded applications faster CPU cycles.
    Thanks I appreciate the reply.
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