Pentium M benchmarks

[bassman]

Hello,

I've been digging the Web, with no success, looking for benchmarks that compare the new Pentium M (Sonoma, 2MB of L2 cache), preferably the 730 (1.6GHz), with some typical desktop CPUs like the Sempron, P4C, etc...Can someone point me out a page that has it?


Thanks in advance! :)

[steves]

Try here

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/index.html

Shows how good the M architecture is. Although Intel will never admit it I suspect the all the current publicity about the new Intel architecture being related to the two architectures (P4 and PM) is smoke and mirrors and the final specs will be 90% M derived.

[bassman]

I already saw those, I needed some more/other points of reference :) Besides, that benchmark is on the Dothan CPUs and I'm after the Sonoma (Pentium M 730 - 1.6GHz) :t

[bassman]

I've also seen these (http://www20.tomshardware.com/mobile/20050119/index.html) but they lack a desktop comparison system :(

[steves]

Sonoma is the code name for a series of Centrino improvements (http://www.physorg.com/news2743.html & http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20040218corp_b.htm ) based around the 915 chipset, not a processor itself.

M770-M705 are all Dothan core's (with 400 and 533 FSB variants) see http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/proc_info_table072505.pdf. Confusion may arise from the fact that Sonoma introduced the 533FSB for the higher end Dothan cores.

Yes - Tom's review doesn't include the M730 but you should be able to exprapolate easily, from the others.

[MicroSun]

Hello bassman,

have you found some good place at the end?

I have tried it with some benchmark sites without a really good result:

(I looked for the 2.0 version)
futuremark.com: (4 cpus but nothing about overclocking)
cpudatabase.com (0 cpu)
tuningpages.com (1 cpu)