- May 16, 2006
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Okay, here I go again. This time with the T7600 vs TL-60. We see a lot of test of the desktop processors but a recent post has brought to my attention the lack of laptop processor reviews. You favorite ninja has come to remedy the situation.
Let me lead of by saying that these laptops are identical other than the price, and processors. And let me tell you this, I tried to get processors with similar clock speeds. I got the T7600 with a 2.33GHz, and the TL-60 with the 2.2GHz processor.
Fist off we take a look at the MFLOP benchmarks. Usually we see the AMD line of processors totally destroy Intel in this area. Well guess what? This time there is a change.
I was shocked to see such a large margin in this test. As for the exact reason, I have no idea. Some one more knowledgeable about mobile processors could probably expand upon this subject.
Our second test is the well known 3DMark 06 test
No surprise here. The Duo basically wipes the floor with the Turion x2. Now before anyone complains, let me let you know that these two processors have the same NVIDIA Mobility 7600 GFX card. So there. But with that said, remember that 3D Mark is heavy on the GFX dependency and so are most games. If you plan to game with your laptop, remember to first look for the laptop with the highest GFX card.
Here we have the PC Mark 2005 score. Absolutely no surprises here.
Alright, now this is what most people would buy a laptop for. Real world applications. If you noticed, I performed the same multitasking test that Tom's did in their quite inclusive CPU chart. The results were this: The T7600 once again beats the Turion.
Here is another thing that people buying a laptop will look at. Heat. for guys, you know that a hot laptop will cause considerable discomfort to the family jewels. You can see that the Core 2 is quite cooler than the X2.
Same results here.
The battery life tests were the only ones that had the Turion X2 placing close to the Core 2. It still though draws too much power for a mobile laptop, even in a 17 inch screen notebook.
Meh, same here.
Now the only place the Turion wins is in the price category. My dv9000 with the Turion came out to be $100 less than my Core 2 book.
So what do you guys think? Question? Comments? Flames?
Let me lead of by saying that these laptops are identical other than the price, and processors. And let me tell you this, I tried to get processors with similar clock speeds. I got the T7600 with a 2.33GHz, and the TL-60 with the 2.2GHz processor.
Fist off we take a look at the MFLOP benchmarks. Usually we see the AMD line of processors totally destroy Intel in this area. Well guess what? This time there is a change.
I was shocked to see such a large margin in this test. As for the exact reason, I have no idea. Some one more knowledgeable about mobile processors could probably expand upon this subject.
Our second test is the well known 3DMark 06 test
No surprise here. The Duo basically wipes the floor with the Turion x2. Now before anyone complains, let me let you know that these two processors have the same NVIDIA Mobility 7600 GFX card. So there. But with that said, remember that 3D Mark is heavy on the GFX dependency and so are most games. If you plan to game with your laptop, remember to first look for the laptop with the highest GFX card.
Here we have the PC Mark 2005 score. Absolutely no surprises here.
Alright, now this is what most people would buy a laptop for. Real world applications. If you noticed, I performed the same multitasking test that Tom's did in their quite inclusive CPU chart. The results were this: The T7600 once again beats the Turion.
Here is another thing that people buying a laptop will look at. Heat. for guys, you know that a hot laptop will cause considerable discomfort to the family jewels. You can see that the Core 2 is quite cooler than the X2.
Same results here.
The battery life tests were the only ones that had the Turion X2 placing close to the Core 2. It still though draws too much power for a mobile laptop, even in a 17 inch screen notebook.
Meh, same here.
Now the only place the Turion wins is in the price category. My dv9000 with the Turion came out to be $100 less than my Core 2 book.
So what do you guys think? Question? Comments? Flames?
But I was just wondering why we never see tests between laptops and desktops. Ok, I know that a laptop can't beat a desktop in the same price range. But I'm sure that a lot of people would pay an extra 25% for a laptop that equals the performance of a desktop pc. I mean, a lot of desktop pc buyers are potential laptop buyers. But just because they can't see what's the difference in performance in programs like 3dstudio, adobe premiere,... they end up buying a desktop even though the advantage of a laptop: you can take it wherever you want.
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