Need Centrino vs Pentium-M vs P4 Benchmarks

[thorin]

Hey Guys,
I'm looking for reviews and articles comparing the above mentioned procs. I've googled with only mild success (same with the forum search).

Thorin

 

[NFS4]

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1800
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1801

 

[Confused]

Centrino is a package of the following: Pentium-M processor, Intel chipset, Intel 802.11b wireless card. Nothing more, nothing less.

The P-M and P4M are what you will be looking for 🙂

Take a look at the Anandtech Pentium-M article 🙂 Lots of good information there 🙂


Confused

 

[airfoil]

Does it help to know that the P4M & Centrino run on a 400 MHz bus, as opposed to the 533 MHz bus for the regular P4?

You may want to check this out

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: airfoil
Does it help to know that the P4M & Centrino run on a 400 MHz bus, as opposed to the 533 MHz bus for the regular P4?

The Pentium-M is a 400Mhz bus. And by the way you are using the Centrino terminology wrong.

 

[airfoil]

I'm quoting from the Intel site here:

Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading technology:

Intel® NetBurst? Microarchitecture - Accelerate multimedia, 3D, audio and video - 533 MHz system bus


Here's the link...

 

[buleyb]

Yeah, Confused has it right...Centrino is the name of the mobile system (made of Pentium-M, wireless card and chipset), and Intel only allows the Centrino name to be used when all the pieces are there, otherwise it has to be a Pentium-M based system.


He wasn't contesting your numbers Airfoil, just the usage of the words...

Pentium-M = 400MHz FSB
Pentium 4 = 533MHz or 800MHz FSB (effective)

 

[ticktack]

may I know are u ppl referring about Pentium- M *or P-IV* Mobile, which is rather confusing in labelling them w/o indicating clockspeed, thus, examples, P-M 1.5 as commonly found in those Centrino based laptop, or P-IV 1.6 M, which is currently what I wish to know what exactly are you guys discussing about which Pentium version?

Side Track, I know P-M has larger cache at 1MB while P-IV M has 512kb.

 

[dexvx]

Pentium-M's are SETI monsters (current SETI client). A 1.7Ghz is shown to match a 3400-3600 Pentium4-C or ~2.6Ghz T-Bred and ~2.4Ghz Barton.

 

[thorin]

Thanks guys!

Thorin

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: dexvx
Pentium-M's are SETI monsters (current SETI client). A 1.7Ghz is shown to match a 3400-3600 Pentium4-C or ~2.6Ghz T-Bred and ~2.4Ghz Barton.

Does that mean they have a strong ALU or FPU? Or is it something completely different?

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: aka1nas

Originally posted by: dexvx
Pentium-M's are SETI monsters (current SETI client). A 1.7Ghz is shown to match a 3400-3600 Pentium4-C or ~2.6Ghz T-Bred and ~2.4Ghz Barton.

Does that mean they have a strong ALU or FPU? Or is it something completely different?

It just means that they can process SETI very well. A 1.5Ghz Pentium-M is clocking around 2 hours.

 

[Ionizer86]

1.5 P-M at 2 hrs is pretty good. I think the benchmarks showed an FX-51 oc'd to FX-57 (2.8) doing about 1:45 or so. In comparison, my oc'd to 2600+ system (2.09Ghz) does a WU in ~2:35.