Ik kwam een interresant artikel tegen op GamePC.com waarin de Turion64 tegenover een Pentium-M en Athlon 64 wordt gezet.
Prestaties van de Turion zijn redelijk goed maar de P-M lijkt toch op veel terreinen nog beter te presteren.
Paar quotes uit de conclusie:
Prestaties van de Turion zijn redelijk goed maar de P-M lijkt toch op veel terreinen nog beter te presteren.
Paar quotes uit de conclusie:
The Turion64, for the most part, gives nearly identical performance per clock compared to AMD’s Socket-754 Athlon64 processors.
The Turion64’s low power consumption and heat production attributes finally give AMD a viable competitor to Intel’s Pentium-M processor, which has dominated the mobile arena with its efficient architecture. Battery life between Turion64 and Pentium-M systems should be very similar, assuming both mobile systems are equipped with similar hardware and batteries. While the Pentium-M delivers better performance per clock over the Turion64, the Turion64 does have some fairly significant features which should not be overlooked. The Turion64 has an integrated memory controller, for smoother application performance, in addition to DDR-400 memory support (opposed to DDR-333). The Turion64 also has the ability to execute 64-bit code, whereas the Pentium-M does not. One could pick up a Turion64 for a low-power, ultra-portable Windows XP X64 Edition 64-bit mobile platform, whereas the Pentium-M is stuck in 32-bit land at this time, and will likely continue to stay here until mid-2006 at the earliest.
Benchmark resultaten zijn te vinden in het artikel.The Turion64 certainly delivers for the mobile arena, and will give finally AMD a viable candidate for the thin-and-light notebook market. Honestly though, I’m a bit under whelmed by the performance of our first generation Turion64 processors, especially in comparison to Intel’s latest generation Pentium-M chips. If AMD is able to push out another clock speed boost or two without pushing up power levels, they should be able to give Intel’s top Pentium-M chips a run for their money.