

And transistors that turn on and off with less energy are more efficient, reducing the operating power, or “dynamic power consumption,” required by a processor. The faster a transistor can toggle on and off, the faster it can do work. Since games are software too, it is also applicable to them. It will enable older software that runs on fewer cores, to perform better on newer hardware. Turbo Boost is a CPU feature that will run CPU clock speed faster than its base clock, if certain conditions are present.

Each core can handle a separate stream of data. The benefit of having more cores is that the system can handle more threads. More likely on a server, less on a personally used computer for interactive desktop workloads. This is useful when you have substantial multiprocessing workloads, many computationally intense simultaneous processes.
