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Mobile Processor Showdown

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the to-the-pain dept.

AnInkle writes "The Tech Report has a head-to-head comparison between the Pentium M760 and the Turion ML-44. From the article: 'AMD has done well with Opteron in servers and the Athlon 64 in desktops, but surely AMD's K8-derived mobile competitor doesn't match up with the Pentium M. Does it?' Conventional wisdom (or marketing genius) says Pentium M's power-saving features and performance-per-watt leave AMD's Turion 64 gasping for batteries. Even though the next-gens are just around the corner, countless mobile systems will sell with these chips over the next year; find out which to choose, whether for performance, battery life or a combination of both."

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  1. PentiumM is dead... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The chip to compare to the Turion is the Intel Core Duo. It has superior floating point performance to the PentiumM, SSE3 support, and two cores instead of one.

    In other words, it crushes the Turion.

  2. Re:no centrino duo? by MobyDisk · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was actually pleased that they compared like price points, rather than just taking the fastest part.

    The problem with comparing the high-end is that these two companies leapfrog over each other every 6 months. And you seldom compare apples-to-apples that way. You might end up with a dual core power-hungry part against a single-core low-power part. For this test, they compared matching price points within the same series. That makes sense to me.

  3. Re:you must compare both proc and chipset by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 3, Informative

    To properly compare to AMD power consumption with Intel, you have to compare the both processor and the chipset. These fundamental differences make direct processor power comparisons meaningless.

    For power, yes, you need to consider the whole package, which they do, they aren't just measuring the CPU power consumption. They said: "We measured the power consumption of our entire test systems, except for the monitor, at the wall outlet". It appears they pretty much did what you suggested.

    For performance, it's pretty much built into the tests.

  4. Re:It's all about price by mduell · · Score: 4, Informative

    The reason they chose these two chips was that they wanted to test the AMD chip against an Intel chip which cost about the same.

    Ok... and?

    Just the chip:
    760 (2M L2 cache 2A GHz 533 MHz FSB 90nm) $294
    T2400 (2M L2 cache 1.83 GHz 667 MHz FSB 65nm) $294

    Chip and chipset:
    760 (2M L2 cache 2A GHz 533 MHz FSB) w/ Intel 915 PM Chipset and Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG $356
    T2400 (2M L2 cache 1.83 GHz 667 MHz FSB) w/ Intel 945 PM Chipset and Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG $359