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superchunk said:

 A dual-core on a far more advanced architecture at a higher clock speed can and will be faster than a quad-core.

For single/duo threads? Yes. For more? No.

Old Arch (quad-core) > New Arch (duo-core) > Old Arch (duo-core) * When you use all four cores.

* Unless the clock difference is too big like Duo-core@1.8Ghz vs. Quad-core@1.0Ghz *