By
Harald Thon,
published on May 7, 2003
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: going, mobile | Themes: Business Notebooks
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: going, mobile | Themes: Business Notebooks
Contents
- 1. Low-Voltage Athlon XP-M: The Alternative For Thin And Light Notebooks?
- 2. Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost
- 3. Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost, Continued
- 4. Pros, Cons And Prices: What The CPUs Offer, And How Much They Cost, Continued
- 5. The Test Candidates At A Glance
- 6. The Rivals On The Outside
- 7. The Rivals On The Outside, Continuted
- 8. ... And From The Inside: Elaborate Cooling Systems
- 9. ... And From The Inside: Elaborate Cooling Systems, Continued
- 10. ... And From The Inside: Elaborate Cooling Systems, Continued
- 11. Benchmarks In Windows XP
- 12. Sisoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU, Multimedia And Memory
- 13. Sisoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU, Multimedia And Memory, Continued
- 14. Multimedia Performance: PC Mark 2002
- 15. Raytracing: POV-Ray For Windows
- 16. MP3 Encoding: Lame
- 17. 3D Performance
- 18. Open GL Games: Quake 3 Arena
- 19. System Performance: Sysmark 2002
- 20. Battery Tests
- 21. Mobile Mark2002
- 22. More on this topic
15. Raytracing: POV-Ray For Windows
The 1.6 GHZ Pentium-M is about 16 percent faster when rendering images, while the 1.5 GHz version is just under 11 percent faster.
Running on the battery, at the lowest clock rate, ("Max Battery"), the Pentium-M's performance advantage over the Athlon XP-M becomes considerably greater. We suspect that the cause lies in architectural features like the Micro-Op fusion and the improved program jump prediction.
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