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Pentium 4 VS AMD Athlon VS Centrino = ???

post #1 of 5
3/28/05 at 1:03am
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I'm obviously not an expert so I need some help to figure this out, because nowhere do they tell you which one is more powerful.

I've been raised on Pentiums, so I know what their Ghz mean. What I don't understand, is what a Pentium M 2.31 Ghz is worth and what an AMD Athlon 3700 is worth.

So my question is, how do they translate in terms of Pentium 4 power. In other words, what's the Pentium 4 equivalent of...

-a Pentium M Processor 770 / 2.13 Ghz ?
-an Athlon AMD 3700+ with PowerNow ?

Thanks a lot
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post #2 of 5
3/28/05 at 1:09am
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Originally Posted by Lone_Star

So my question is, how do they translate in terms of Pentium 4 power. In other words, what's the Pentium 4 equivalent of...

-a Pentium M Processor 770 / 2.13 Ghz ?
-an Athlon AMD 3700+ with PowerNow ?
This is a rough estimate across a broad spectrum of applications, obviously, specific programs will vary:

PM 2.13 GHz ~= P4 3.4 GHz (non-EE)
slightly higher on business apps;
slightly lower on games;
much lower on content creation/ photo editing
much lower at multitasking.

Athlon64 3700+ ~= P4 3.8 GHz (non-EE)
slightly lower on content creation/ edit
slightly higher on gaming
considerably better on scientific apps
considerably lower at multitasking.
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post #3 of 5
3/28/05 at 1:12am
AMD names their processors to compare, roughly with the GHz of their P4 competitors. So a 3700+ is ~ a 3.7GHz P4... Though were you to run that AMD64 head to head with that P4, the AMD would own it hardcore.

Someone on this board was mentioning that an AMD64 3x00 (not sure exactly which one) beat a 5.xGhz P4 (not sure exactly again) in benchmarks.

A 2.1Ghz P-M is roughly the same as a 3.4-3.6GHz P4 - but may out perform it in some respects.

The P-M has the lowest power consumption/heat production of all of them (longer battery life, smaller laptop, etc).
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post #4 of 5
3/28/05 at 1:14am
Ballpark figures:
3.4 GHz
3.7 GHz

We can quibble, and much does depend on the code you are running and other stuff. But . . .
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post #5 of 5
3/28/05 at 3:07am
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Thanks a lot for the answers, I get a better idea now.

Sounds like I'm going for Athlon then since I'm all about gaming. Guess the Sager 4750 is the right choice.
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