Testing 12 mobile CPU's

[SArd]

* Penryn - Celeron T3300, Core 2 Duo T6600;
* Clarksfield - Core i7-720QM;
* Arrandale - Pentium P6000, Core i3-330M, Core i5-450M;
* Caspian - Turion II X2 M520;
* Champlain - Athlon II P320, Turion II X2 N530, Phenom II X2 N620, Phenom II X3 N830, Phenom II X4 N930.






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[Russian]

I would've they rather sort them by performance than by MFG. I want to be able to see fastest to slowest without having to eyeball it.

The numbers help, but for a quick look over I think going from fastest to slowest would've made more sense.

[Jaivan]

No power consumption figures?

[god_43]

wtf...no way a celeron is going to beat a phenom or an Athlon...i call bs!

[dartaz]

wtf...no way a celeron is going to beat a phenom or an Athlon...i call bs!

Yes it could

Remember that Celeron T3300 is based on 45nm Core 2

[ajaidev]

Not bad performance of Phenom X2 N620 against the i3 330M seems like a good compromise lets hope battery wise also its same or better.

They should have included video trans-coding numbers also because people do transcode videos to their iPod's all the time using the apple software.

wtf...no way a celeron is going to beat a phenom or an Athlon...i call bs!

Where did Celeron beat a Phenom except SuperPI?

[god_43]

Not bad performance of Phenom X2 N620 against the i3 330M seems like a good compromise lets hope battery wise also its same or better.

They should have included video trans-coding numbers also because people do transcode videos to their iPod's all the time using the apple software.





Where did Celeron beat a Phenom except SuperPI?

true it only wins out in superpi, but it comes close to it in every other bench mark. idk i don't trust this review. performance seems too low on the amd chips. i don't expect it to beat the core series, but the Pentiums and the celerons should not even be able to compete with the Athlons?

[dartaz]

Not bad performance of Phenom X2 N620 against the i3 330M seems like a good compromise lets hope battery wise also its same or better.

Let me remind you that i3 330M has 35w TDP whick includes the GPU and PCI-E controllers

N620 has TDP of 35w TDP (which doesn't include the GPU and PCI-E controller)

And i3 330M performed better in majority of cases. So, in other words N620 must consume less power than i3 in order to match it in performance per watt

[kl0012]

Not bad performance of Phenom X2 N620 against the i3 330M seems like a good compromise lets hope battery wise also its same or better.

They should have included video trans-coding numbers also because people do transcode videos to their iPod's all the time using the apple software.





Where did Celeron beat a Phenom except SuperPI?

They did include video trans-coding test. See the full review. i5-450 seems to me is the best bang for the bucks.

[dartaz]

true it only wins out in superpi, but it comes close to it in every other bench mark. idk i don't trust this review. performance seems too low on the amd chips.

Core i3 was overall faster, but the difference is not big

i don't expect it to beat the core series, but the Pentiums and the celerons should not even be able to compete with the Athlons?

Clock for clock 45nm core 2 duo can easily beat Athlon II

The only difference between the Pentium/celeron and Core 2 series is the cache size. So, why would anyone expect that the difference between them and Athlon to be great ?

[Boissez]

They did include video trans-coding test. See the full review. i5-450 seems to me is the best bang for the bucks.

GPU-accelerated transcoding would have been fairer comparison IMO. The onboard GPU helps low end CPUs a lot even if it only has 80SP.

[Hornet331]

Hmm i wonder why they have tested the Celeron T and not the Celeron P...

[tiro_uspsss]

will there be 6C sandy bridge mobile CPUs? I hope so!

[rozzyroz]

celeron's arent the dogs they used to be

[Calmatory]

Time to upgrade from 1.6 GHz Single core Conroe-L.

[Manicdan]

basically you cannot go wrong with any cpu, as long as you know how many cores you need

2 fast or 4 slow, both are going to do great

prices and power consumption would both have been very important though, considering this is mobile stuff, you NEED power consumption. and price to let you know if things are even in the same ballpark

[Shadov]

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Sorry if someone still uses Super Pi for testing multi core CPU's and especially mobile solutions and expects users to understand what impact that will have on their -> notebook <- usage, then its not even worth clicking the test IMHO.