Our Test And Comparison Systems, Continued
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Our Test And Comparison Systems, Continued
- 3. Detailed Configuration: Test And Comparison Systems
- 4. Pictures Of The Turion 64/Mobile Sempron Test System
- 5. Mobile Sempron Test System, Continued
- 6. Mobile Sempron Test System, Continued
- 7. Turion 64 And Centrino Notebook Cooling Systems Are Barely Different
- 8. Turion 64 Or Mobile Sempron: Which CPU For What Uses?
- 9. Representative Office Application
- 10. 3-D Game Play
- 11. A Warning To Upgraders: Careful When Upgrading The CPU!
- 12. Battery Tests
- 13. Battery Lifetime
- 14. Battery Charge Times
- 15. Doom 3
- 16. Unreal Tournament 2004
- 17. SiSoftware Sandra Pro (Synthetic Benchmark)
- 18. WinRAR (Data Compression)
- 19. Windows Media Encoder (Video Encoding And Processing)
- 20. Studio 9 Plus (Video Encoding And Processing)
- 21. Conclusion: Goals May Be Met, But There's Still Room For Improvement
2. Our Test And Comparison Systems, Continued
Overall, we tested three CPUs from AMD and one from Intel in both systems. We chose the MT-34 and ML-34 from the Turion 64 product family. Both run at 1.86 GHz, but differ in their thermal design power ratings as explained in Part I of this review. Battery lifetime with the MT model should be somewhat longer than that for the ML model, even though other performance measurements shouldn't differ.
CPU-Z reads the usage data for the Turion 64 ML-34 correctly.
It also works perfectly with the Turion 64 MT-34 as well.
In addition, we also had a Mobile Sempron 2800+ at our disposal. We chose the Pentium M 750 chip from Intel, because its maximum core clock rate of 1.86 GHz is only slightly faster than that for the Turion 64 models we chose.
The maximum core clock rate for the Mobile Sempron 2800+ is slower.
With the AMD platform we also performed some cross-testing with RAM modules of different speeds to learn if and how much the performance of the Turion 64 platform scales with faster memory.
| Intel (Dothan) | AMD (Turion/Sempron) | |
|---|---|---|
| Notebook | Gigabyte W511A | MSI M635 |
| Chipset | Intel 915 PM (Rev. 3) | ATI ID5951 |
| Processor | Intel Pentium M 750 (Dothan)
(1.86 GHz, FSB533, 2 MB L2-Cache) |
AMD Turion MT-34 (Lancaster)
AMD Turion ML-34 (Lancaster) AMD Sempron 2800+ |
| Memory | 2x 512 MB DDR333 (CL 2.5) | 1x 512 MB DDR400 (CL3.0)
1x 512 MB DDR333 (CL2.5) 2x 512 MB DDR266 (CL2.0) |
| Graphic | ATI X700 - 128 MB GDDR3
GPU: 357.75 MHz Memory: 344.25 MHz |
ATI X700 - 128 MB GDDR3
GPU: 351 up 357.75 MHz Memory: 297 up 344.25 MHz |
Note: Across all the various benchmarks and settings we used, the total size of the RAM modules showed no measurable influence on results.
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