Mobile Processor Showdown

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 13, 2006 @01:37PM 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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PentiumM is dead... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-13 14:14 · 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.
Re:It's all about price by mduell · 2006-02-13 16:50 · 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