How fast is this Pentium M?

[scottypop]

So I am very happy to say that I was suprised at work this morning with a brand new laptop! It has a 1.5GHz Pentium M and I am curious how this CPU compares to an AMD or Pentium 4.

 

[Agamar]

I would say, from working with one, that it felt somewhere near a P4 2.8G. This is from working with a HP NC6000 with a P-M 1.6.

 

[clarkey01]

2.5-2.8 Ghz Pentium 4

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: scottypop
So I am very happy to say that I was suprised at work this morning with a brand new laptop! It has a 1.5GHz Pentium M and I am curious how this CPU compares to an AMD or Pentium 4.

congratulations :beer:

 

[alexruiz]

What are you going to be doing with the laptop? General usage that P-M is close to 2.8 P4, media encoding is more like 2.0 GHz. Gaming (if video card allows) is close to 3.0 Ghz, but sysmark 2002 internet content creation is more like 1.3 GHz (one of the few cases where the P4 has a higher IPC). Database work will also be like 1.5-1.6 GHz. In the majority of the cases it will be very fast, in some special situations it willl be ashamed by the P4.


Alex

 

[kini62]

Read this test;

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=dfipm&page=1

OCed M at 2.53Ghz using an Intels outdated 855 chipset- outperforms even the FX55 in some gaming tests.

Check it out, very interesting. And why is Intel not using this chip in desktops?

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: kini62
Read this test;

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=dfipm&page=1

OCed M at 2.53Ghz using an Intels outdated 855 chipset- outperforms even the FX55 in some gaming tests.

Check it out, very interesting. And why is Intel not using this chip in desktops?

Overclock an FX 55 and the reverse will happen, shocker

 

[kini62]

That's not the point. The M chip is still 100mhz under the FX, doesn't have the memory bandwidth etc, etc, etc....

The Pentium M is a very good chip design.

 

[scottypop]

I will mostly be using it for work (IT stuff) but I am installing World of Warcraft on it right now It has a Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro and 512MB DDR RAM.

 

[brazzmunk]

my p 1.4 m i beleive is equal to p4 2.6c well that's what super pi tells. is that true?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Originally posted by: kini62
That's not the point. The M chip is still 100mhz under the FX, doesn't have the memory bandwidth etc, etc, etc....

The Pentium M is a very good chip design.

but its not nearly as well rounded as the AMD64, in some respects the dothan gets pummeled.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: brazzmunk
my p 1.4 m i beleive is equal to p4 2.6c well that's what super pi tells. is that true?

To a point... because the RAM is slower and not dual channel, memory intensive tasks will of course be slower on the Pentium M.

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: kini62
That's not the point. The M chip is still 100mhz under the FX, doesn't have the memory bandwidth etc, etc, etc....

The Pentium M is a very good chip design.

Its design does not allow to scale up as far as a Pentium 4, and that 2.6 Ghz reached by the FX is on .13 micron process tech, wait for mature 90 nm yeilds.

Also the memory and bandwidth are down to the chips design aswell. It costs time and money to upgrade FSB, its like saying, "well the pentium 4 gets beaten by the fx but it has a slower FSB and no on die memory controler" your right it doesnt, but thats Intel problem.