It looks like the benchmarks here are right in line with Tomshardware.
Anand's show that there is not a faster processor out there at the
2.0-2.2ghz range. The only difference between TH's and anand's tests are
that Anand chose not to overclock the M.
Intel has a history of having their flagship product outshined by a niche
product that they never intended to be a top performer. Years ago this
happened with the release of the Celeron "A", and perhaps influenced Intel's
next generation design of flagship PIII's that had integrated L2 cache.
In this case today we dont have a value priced product outclassing their
flagship, but value still may be found in slower M's that can be
overclocked. For some who regard power consumtion and heat output as a top
priority, the M has value no matter how much higher the cost.
It would be very nice to see Intel abandoning the P4 alltogether and
building a modern die based off the M - put in SSE3, hyperthreading, 1066mhz
FSB support, higher mhz, MP capable, and tweak the core to handle large data
streams more efficiently. This in turn would make a great race with AMD.
Right now AMD is easily 2 years ahead of Intel performance wise (Intel's
fastest now is as fast as AMD's best from 2 years ago) and the obvious
pragmatic business decision for AMD is to not break their back in R&D for a
faster chip until their competition becomes competetive.
From: CW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [H] Tom's Pentium-M review
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:37:33 -0500
Hmm. Well, I tried the tests several times, and I couldn't come up with
Tom's numbers. I was much closer in numbers to those that Anand put up:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2382&p=3
