Athlon and Mobil Mark

[VTboy]

If you look at Mobile Mark the AMD Athlons CPUs seem to perform very poorly compared to the Pentium 4/M and the Pentium-M. Whats up with this and what does the benchmark in Mobile Mark measure that AMD does so bad in.

 

[alexruiz]

Mobile mark ~ sysmark 2002...

 

[Shivatron]

Doesn't MobileMark take into accout battery life as well? That would explain the Athlon's low score.

 

[sciencewhiz]

MobileMark runs a benchmark (I assume sysmark based on alexruiz's post) repeatedly, until the battery is dead. The score is based on how much "work" you can get done before the battery dies.

If you have a slow processor and a short battery, you won't do well. If you either have a good battery and slow processor, you will do ok, as will a fast processor and a bad battery. The Athlons draw more power, and thus have less battery life, leading to a lower mobile mark. The Pentium-M is very low power, and fairly fast, which is why the do better. The p4-M is very fast (sysmark is biased slightly towards intel, IIRC), so that is why it does well.

 

[alexruiz]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
MobileMark runs a benchmark (I assume sysmark based on alexruiz's post) repeatedly, until the battery is dead. The score is based on how much "work" you can get done before the battery dies.

If you have a slow processor and a short battery, you won't do well. If you either have a good battery and slow processor, you will do ok, as will a fast processor and a bad battery. The Athlons draw more power, and thus have less battery life, leading to a lower mobile mark. The Pentium-M is very low power, and fairly fast, which is why the do better. The p4-M is very fast (sysmark is biased slightly towards intel, IIRC), so that is why it does well.

Not quite my friend. An Athlon XP-M eats less electricity that a P4-M.... Incredible how the myth of the Athlon being more power hungry than the P4 still persists.... A lot of people forget also that there are almost no Athlon powered laptops with decent platform or decent battery either. Test that mobile mark on the uniwill N261C2 (KT333, mobility radeon 9000, 9 cells battery) and the picture will be much different.

Theoretically, mobile mark measures how efficient the laptop is running under battery. Battery life is measured under "battery mark" (both useles in my opinion, but oh well)

 

[sciencewhiz]

I never said that the Athlon XP-M uses more electricity then the P4m, only that it uses more then the P-M. I did say that the P4-M was better then the Athlon XP-M at the benchmark (sysmark).