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Subject: Re: More Pentium M (Centrino) benchmarks

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:07:22 09/04/03

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On September 04, 2003 at 05:41:10, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On September 04, 2003 at 02:00:34, P. Massie wrote:
>
>>I re-ran the benchmarks on a Centrino 1.5 ghz machine.  The software was Fritz
>>8, version 8.0.0.23, with 64 MB of hash.  I got a result of 1135 for the
>>Fritzmark and 1025 kn/s.
>>
>>Paul
>
>With Fritz 8.0.0.23 and 64MB hash, on a P4-3.06 I get 1238 Fritzmark and 1120
>KNS. It seems that the Centrino 1.7 is slightly faster than the P4-3.06 for
>chess.
>
>Enrique


What makes the Centrino so much faster at a relatively low GHz, even than the
Athlon or P3?

Can one buy a desktop system using a Centrino instead of a P4?



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