AMD turion or P-M....clock for clock

[attack]

Say you have the 2 and each is running 2.0ghz...just kinda a consensus...gaming, encoding...number crunching...just the basics

 

[ronaldo]

there are no acurate tests on net till now (i dont include game pc).

here are some basics:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2374&p=2

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2129&p=7

the diference in performance is surely not so great like many thinks.
the most important thing is price/performance ratio plus features, and that is what you need to look for. (battery life too is important)

i found one review, but its from a magazine:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8227/acer3cm.jpg

and these about performance/price ratio of centrino and turion

http://www.zdnetindia.com/print.html?iElementId=125264

 

[Ssetre]

Turion is nothing but a low volt Athlon 64. So any test between an A64 and a P-M would an indication of performance.

 

[Gnufsh]

I'm not sure about performance, but I think the P-M would have the advantage in power usage, something important in a laptop.

 

[fAlCoNNiAn]

I'm not sure about performance, but I think the P-M would have the advantage in power usage, something important in a laptop.

agreed.

 

[mmb088]

Although the Turion has PowerNow tech along with the rest of the A64 family, its just lower clocked than the previous Mobile A64s for greater battery life and cooler temps.

 

[Bar81]

The P-M will be the superior processor for gaming, office, web surfing, and power consumption. In everything else the Turion should trump the P-M and sometimes by a good margin.

 

[Jcollins82]

Well, I don't have any links to corroborate what I'm going to say, but the P-M is simply a highly modified Pentium III, but for all it's enhancements, it retains the same 10-stage pipeline. The Turion, as mentioned above, is more or less a low voltage socket 754 A64, with a 12-stage pipeline. Clock for clock, the P-M should be the more efficient processor, the difference is most likely slight though.

 

[Gnufsh]

Well, I don't have any links to corroborate what I'm going to say, but the P-M is simply a highly modified Pentium III, but for all it's enhancements, it retains the same 10-stage pipeline. The Turion, as mentioned above, is more or less a low voltage socket 754 A64, with a 12-stage pipeline. Clock for clock, the P-M should be the more efficient processor, the difference is most likely slight though.

While it is still the P6 arch, AFAIK the P-M has major changes from the Pentium III, including slightly longer pipelines, a different bus, greatly improved branch prediction and major power related savings (basically defaulting to a power-saving state and having to be brought out of it instead of having to be put in a power-saving state). I'll see if I can dig up a link. Also, remember not to read too much into pipeline lengths, there is more to performance per clock than pipeline length.