Sempron or Pentium M?

[thedoc46]

What would you say is the quicker out of these two laptops

Acer Aspire AS3005WLCi AMD Mobile Sempron 3300+ 15.4" Wide XGA 512MB 80GB DVD/CD-RW Combo SiS Mirage 2 NoteBook - Retail


or a

Acer Aspire AS1691WLCi Pentium M 725(1.6GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 512MB 80GB DVD/CD-RW Combo Intel GMA900 NoteBook - Retail


obviously the difference being the Pentium will have a 2mb Level 2 Cache and the Sempron only have a 128kb cache.

I'm probably going to go for the Pentium AS I HATE the slowness and disk churning of a Celeron, but I'm not familiar with a Sempron. I'm just guessing it'll be as crap as a Celeron? being the L2 cache is so small..

Both are exactly the same price

 

[trojan698]

The pentium M's are supposedly very nice chips.

 

[mightynimrod]

Pentium-M definetaly, wipes the floor with a Sempron, look at the cache sizes.

 

[GAMEfreak]

yes, and they perform better having 2 more data stages than athlons, meaning more work done per cycle, but not as much data loss like the pentium 4's that we know and hate.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The Pentium M is the best single core chip on the market today in terms of performance versus energy dissipation. Intel dominates the moblie computing world.

Desktops on the other hand...

 

[|Ric|]

never liking to side with intel, but the pentium-m wins hands down

 

[thedoc46]

never liking to side with intel, but the pentium-m wins hands down

thought as much, thanx everyone...

 

[m3csl2004]

pentium m wins in desktops to, its just the fact of board availability/awkwardness with coolers and thing that stops everyman and his dog owning one (unlike opterons )

 

[Overlag]

yes, and they perform better having 2 more data stages than athlons, meaning more work done per cycle, but not as much data loss like the pentium 4's that we know and hate.

the oposite is infact true.

the longer the pipeline, the less work it does per mhz


however the Pentium - M is the ONLY choice in laptops right now...

Intel = Mobile
AMD = Desktop

 

[pcoltrane]

the oposite is infact true.

the longer the pipeline, the less work it does per mhz


however the Pentium - M is the ONLY choice in laptops right now...

Intel = Mobile
AMD = Desktop

The only choice? The turion is a very nice processor indeed, just as power effcient as the pentium m. Too many people are fooled by the difference in the way intel and AMD measure the power dissapation on their chips. The pentium m is indeed a nice processor, but once you consider the price difference for a similar performance chip the turion becomes a serious contender.

If it were my £, if you can find a comparable turion (not sempron) laptop for less money than the pentium m i'd seriously consider that.

Marc


Marc

 

[Cyber-Mav]

clock for clock nothing beats the pentium M not even a fx57 if compared to a overclocked PM to match the fx57 core speed.

how ever thats all in 32bit applications. running 64bit optimised code will tell a different story.

 

[NathanE]

Anybody that doesn't think the P-M is a worthy desktop chip should read this article: http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2648&p=1

 

[m3csl2004]

thats yonah : / lol


maybe type dothan and pi into google, ive seen some @ 3ghz doing 23 second 1mb runs

 

[stigggeh]

thats yonah : / lol


maybe type dothan and pi into google, ive seen some @ 3ghz doing 23 second 1mb runs

it also has a 760 on the graphs too though

 

[m3csl2004]

lol - maybe i should read the whole article next time


seriosuly tho, clock for clock celeron m's will beat a64 (512k)

 

[Thing]

Pentium M's are pretty good though my 1.5 lags a lot in Call of Duty 2 (like I should expect better, it tends to run smoother after a couple of minutes juddering).