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The Register Finds Fault In Turion Benchmark Setup

Posted by timothy on from the never-promised-not-to-blow-my-nose-on-you dept.

An anonymous reader submits "From The Register, it appears that AMD has joined Intel, ATI, nVidia, and just about every other hardware manufacturer on the planet in benchmark fiddling. The benchmarks for the Turion appear to have been compared using quite different systems - a 35 watt Turion 64 with an ATI GPU versus a 25 watt Pentium M with an Intel integrated graphics processor. Sadly, it appears the original benchmarks were too good to be true."

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  1. Strage Focus by mal0rd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oddly, the register article reads like an opinion piece, focusing on how AMD should care more about battery life.

    1. Re:Strage Focus by ameoba · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Actually, if you look at benchmarks on the fastest Pentium-M chip, they beat the high-end P4 quite consistantly. They're quite impressive chips, taking the excellent design of the old P6 core & integrating the best parts of the Netburst core. The end result is a fast, low-power CPU.

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  2. Actualy there's a bigger one by justsomebody · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All benchmarks are 32-bit. Turion is 64-bit.

    I wonder how it will perform with 64-bit linux. Well, I'm going to see when some brand name shows up with Turion in his higher class.

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  3. Seen it before... by Datasage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A couple years ago, I was at an AMD Press event thingy because they were giving away free stuff. At the event they computers set up with UT2003. Yes, they did the same thing. They gave they the intel computers onboard graphics, while thier computers had nvidia cards.

    Games especailly are bound to the video card in terms of performance.

    Fair?

    Yeah, right.

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  4. I'm not too worried... by kisea · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My first laptop was an Athlon 1.2, and the battery life majorly sucked (i'm talking mere minutes not even close to an hour), you may have even said "battery...what battery?" So when I enrolled in a Game Dev class I needed to upgrade due to crappy video. I got an athlon64 based system and my friend got a Pentium-M centrino system with similar video and similar processor speed, etc. and my machine will run circles around theirs. If i'm running on battery, I dim my screen, etc. Granted, I do not have quite the battery life as they do, but I feel I have a very nice balance between power and battery life.
    AMD has made some major headway in the mobile processor market and I believe they will continue making improvements. Just look what they did with desktop processors and look what they have already done with their mobile processors. Its unfortunate that the test setup was flawed, but the 'centrino' package is being pushed very hard in advertising. I'm not trying to make any excuses, and I admit that I haven't done much research since I got my notebook, but are there many notebooks offered with the 25 watt pentium-M that isn't centrino based?