Intel Atom or Pentium M??

[kny30]

Hi,

I have a quick question. Which is better for applications?

Intel Pentium M 2.2GHz
or
Intel Atom 1.67 GHz

Battery life really isn't that important. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

 

[richierich1212]

pentium m

 

[tweakboy]

Exactly what richrich said. That M must be close to 40 percent faster. gl

 

[Qbah]

That Pentium M will smack an Atom silly in most things 🙂 Though an Atom usually comes with an IGP that can accelerate Flash 10.1 videos so there are things an Atom equipped "laptop" may provide a better experience with... A Pentium M at 2.2GHz may have problems with HD Flash videos (and it most certainly is paired with an IGP not supported for Flash 10.1 acceleration) - that's just a guess though.

 

[lsv]

Are you referring to the D510? It gets a faster PAssMark score...

664 for Atom D510 @ 1.67ghz
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Atom+D510+%40+1.66GHz

428 for Pentium M 1.7ghz
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+M+1.70GHz

I'd prefer new tech + dual core vs. old tech more cache.

 

[f4phantom2500]

just to clarify, op, you're aware that the pentium m was the precursor to the core duo and, thus, the core 2 duo, right? if you're talking about the pentium m why not talk about the core 2 solo instead?

 

[IntelUser2000]

The only Atom CPUs that have HD video acceleration of any form on the GPU pair are the Z-series chips which are kinda underwhelming on the Netbooks.

 

[Ika]

I think we need more information from the OP to know what his purposes are and what he's comparing. You can't just drop one CPU or another into a laptop. We need full specs, and faster for WHAT.

That said, I recall the Pentium Ms were about 50% faster clock-for-clock than Atom 230s (i.e. Atom at 1.6ghz was equivalent to Pentium M at 800mhz). This was a couple years ago though, when the first wave of netbooks was first proliferating.

 

[kny30]

Great! Want to thank everyone for their input. I know that Atom is all over the place in the mobile market, but since I haven't seen any Pentium M's in a while I wasn't sure how they stack up to each other.

I'm looking at a small form factor pc and unfortunately core 2 duo isn't a option.

Thanks again for all of the advise!
Ken