Author: Tony Werten
Date: 03:37:34 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 04:26:17, Joshua Shriver wrote: >I may bit missing something, but isn't a Centrino just a regular x86 CPU aimed >for low-power consumption and something for wireless? If anything I'd think it >would be slower. > >Guess I don't see how it could be faster, especially against a Xeon or even an >Athlon. What is the size for the caches (L1 and L2), what ghz range is it? > >Not trying to sound condescending, I really dont understand it. Basicly, the next Intel processor will be based on the Pentium M processor, not the P4. The P4 looked promissing, but has turned out not to have too much future (basicly heat), Pentium M is the alternative. Where P4 is "as much clocks per sec as possible" the PM is "as much work per clock as possible". And yes, there are big parallels with the AMD processors. A very funny one is that now Ghz seem to be less important, Intel wants to start using a performance rating. A PM 1.4 laptop seems to have about the same speed as an AMD2600+, with 1 big difference. Whereas my AMD does it's helicopter imitation, I can't even hear the fan of the PM. I let it run my chessprogram for a few hours at my desk, and the fan never started to make a noise. My p4 laptop (also Dell) uses its fan about 50% of the time (running office applications, no chessprograms) Tony > >Sincerely, >Joshua Shriver > >On June 15, 2004 at 04:17:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On June 14, 2004 at 21:07:03, David Mitchell wrote: >> >>>2) Xeon >> >>>4) Centrino >> >>Centrino should easily outperform Xeon clock for clock. >> >>For some programs it will even outperform an Opteron clock for clock >>in 32 bit mode. >> >>-- >>GCP
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