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Intel Yonah Performance Preview

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the gastrointestinal-marine-research-lab dept.

illusoryphoenix writes "Anandtech has an interesting preview of the successor to Dothan (Pentium M's second generation), Yonah, with tests run on an engineering sample. It seems like latest Pentium M is still lagging in the floating point area, but has gained some ground overall. It's also interesting to note their comparisons to the Pentium D/Netburst based dual core."

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  1. Not impressed. by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow, a 65nm chip consumes slightly less power and performs slightly worse compared to AMD's bottom-of-the-line 90nm X2. Who's amazed? Aren't we just applauding because we see Intel as the big retarded kid who's just managed to tie his own shoes? What I'm trying to say is that this is no big accomplishment. If AMD's 65nm chips were turning out these sorts of performance numbers, we'd all scream about how this is a huge letdown, a step backwards, is this finally the end of AMD, etc.. So let's keep some perspective.

  2. Not so great? by taskforce · · Score: 4, Interesting
    While the rhetoric in the article is pretty positive, if you actually read what they're saying and not how they're saying it, it's not that great.

    It consumes less than a 3800 X2? Isn't the fact that a laptop chip is even being *compared* to a dual core desktop chip in terms of power consumption quite worrying? And for that same "little big less power" they're getting a "little bit less speed"? I thought this was all about performance per Watt?

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  3. Re:This is a laptop chip? by Hard_Rock_2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The dothan caps at 27 wats, the yonah goes from approx 25-49 under max load(depending on model, there is an Extreme gamer chip version so that might explain the rather high second number), but it will most definetly not use 45 when not plugged in and probably go closer to the the min.