Turion is widespread?

[shoRunner]

Best Buy is carrying a Compaq AMD Turion laptop. I hadn't heard anything about the chip for sometime and now it shows up in best buy. Since when did it become so widespread.

 

[sandorski]

The last week or so there have been numerous headlines about newly released Turion Notebooks/Laptops.

 

[Nick5324]

Originally posted by: shoRunner
Best Buy is carrying a Compaq AMD Turion laptop. I hadn't heard anything about the chip for sometime and now it shows up in best buy. Since when did it become so widespread.

I noticed the same thing, had the same reaction. Good to see it is out.

 

[shoRunner]

anyone know of any places that has some proper benchmarks of the turion vs centrino etc.

 

[sniperruff]

you make it sound like turion is a virus

 

[imported_g33k]

The Turion performs very similiar to an skt939 90nm A64, with SSE3 instructions, only without dual channel RAM. The turion is basically a 90mn SKT 754. At the same clock rate the Pentium M generally outperforms it, but they are very close. The only thing I dont know is how they fare in power consumption. At any rate the AMD Turion seems to be priced significantly lower than a Pentium M notebook.

Some benchmarks:

"When Intel launched the Dothan Pentium M core, we compared it to the Socket-754 Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8GHz) - which is very similar to the Turion 64 ML-32 (1.8GHz/512KB). While the performance comparison isn't identical to a Turion 64 notebook, it should give you an idea of how competitive the Turion 64 will be performance-wise, with the Pentium M."

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: g33k
The Turion performs very similiar to an skt939 90nm A64, with SSE3 instructions, only without dual channel RAM. The turion is basically a 90mn SKT 754. At the same clock rate the Pentium M generally outperforms it, but they are very close. The only thing I dont know is how they fare in power consumption. At any rate the AMD Turion seems to be priced significantly lower than a Pentium M notebook.

Some benchmarks:

"When Intel launched the Dothan Pentium M core, we compared it to the Socket-754 Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8GHz) - which is very similar to the Turion 64 ML-32 (1.8GHz/512KB). While the performance comparison isn't identical to a Turion 64 notebook, it should give you an idea of how competitive the Turion 64 will be performance-wise, with the Pentium M."

looking for some batt benches also since i would much rather buy a amd laptop vs a centrino if batt usage is +/- 10% or so.

 

[Hacp]

Turion notebooks WILL have less battery life than pentium Notebooks. It is not the processor's fault though. DDR memory needs way more voltage than ddr2, that is why the pentium is on top in terms of battery life.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Hacp
Turion notebooks WILL have less battery life than pentium Notebooks. It is not the processor's fault though. DDR memory needs way more voltage than ddr2, that is why the pentium is on top in terms of battery life.

any idea as to how much? it looks like the difference in ram V is ~.7 wouldn't really call that "way more"

 

[Mrvile]

I have a friend who needed a laptop for college, I almost recommended the Turion but it was new and I dunno how well it did, so we got him a Pentium M instead.

 

[Pabster]

Can't go wrong with a Dothan powered lappie

 

[shoRunner]

Originally posted by: Hacp
Turion notebooks WILL have less battery life than pentium Notebooks. It is not the processor's fault though. DDR memory needs way more voltage than ddr2, that is why the pentium is on top in terms of battery life.

~1 volt.

the processor uses less than the pentium m

 

[Rock Hydra]

Hmm...I wonder if they'll be on sale at Newegg and if their PGA is identical to those in desktop motherboards. This could make for one helluva overclocking chip.

 

[bob4432]

i really wish somebody did a review/comparison on a turion notebook. i was a sams today and they have that lance armstrong version for ~$1000 set up pretty nice.