Intel® Pentium® M Processor

[Atlechnik]

what is the difference in the chipsets 715 vs 705 if they are both rated at 1.5Ghz? and what one is worth getting?

Is there a difference between the 735 vs 715 chipset aside for the jump to 1.75GHz?

thax for your help,

Yasha

 

[So]

I knew this model number thing was a mistake.

There are other factors to a chip than speed, like core revision and cache size.

 

[stevty2889]

The 715 is the Dothan core with 2mb of cache, the 705 is the banias core with 1mb of cache. 735 is also a dothan core with 2mb of cache. I agree that it's a bit too confusing.

 

[Atlechnik]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
The 715 is the Dothan core with 2mb of cache, the 705 is the banias core with 1mb of cache. 735 is also a dothan core with 2mb of cache. I agree that it's a bit too confusing.

what is the difference between the Dothan core and the banias core?

 

[dullard]

I was looking at the Pentium M notebooks on Friday. I decided to wait until Monday to make a decision. Good thing I did. There was the unannounced introduction of the 705 this weekend. From what I can tell the 715 has these advantages over the 705:
[*]2 MB cache instead of 1 MB
[*]improved data prefetching
[*]better registry system
There may be other differences. Of course the drawback is the 715 costs more. Does anyone know of a review that covered these differences?

I was looking at Dell Inspiron 600m notebooks. On Friday, the 715 with the features I wanted cost $1716. On Monday, Dell doesn't offer the 715 anymore, but has the 705 with the same features for $1636. But the 725 got a price cut from Dell dropping it to $1682. I'd gladly take the 725 over the 705 for such a small price difference.

 

[stevty2889]

Dothan is the newer core prodcued on the 90nm proccess, with 2mb of cache, Banias is produced on the 130nm proccess, and has 1mb of cache.