AMD Turion ZM-80 V.S. C2D T8100 ??

Hi there

I'm thinking, which is the best between these two:

AMD Turion ZM-80 2.1Ghz
&
Intel C2D T8100 2.1Ghz
??

 

What do you want to do?
You really wont see much of a difference if any, in common every day tasks.
If battery life is more important, the C2D will get slightly better battery life.

 

well,T8100 performs better,is cooler and has better battery life,so get AMD

 

the only reason i would consider an AMD at all is because you can find many more laptops with ATI video solutions in those AMD based laptops..

it seems the NVIDIA heat issues are starting to show real-world laptop damage now...

but since i don't game much at all,, and don't play any NEW HIGH END games,, i stick with INTEL CPUs and the INTEL intergrated graphics chipset.

 

the problem is, this laptop tx2550 comes only in AMD Turion x2 processor. so I don't really have a choice here

talin
the laptop comes with it two batteries, 4 cells and 8 cells. so I think they have solved this problem?

Xirurg
are these facts or you concluded this from testing the system?
if you can direct me to the benchmark please do.

neither do i buddy

 

i own one of these new "puma" cpus. speaking from experience the thing is hot, power hungry, and SLOW. dont get anything with amd if the aforemention things bother you.

i once tried the dell vostro 1500 with a c2d running at 1.4ghz. never did any conclusive testing due to not being my laptop to begin with, but from the short time spent with the cpu, it definitely SMOKE the amd rm-70 running at 2ghz. in things like windows explorer responsiveness, smooth flash playback(gametrailers high def videos, flash heavy sites), and file opening, the 1.4ghz c2d was alot faster.

 

there148
i don't think puma set comes with rm70 cpu, does it?

 

yea it does, even the ql-60 is considered puma. basically according to amd, puma platform consist of cpus capable of features like independent core throttling(amd calls it CoolCore) and hyper transport 3. i dont know if this is official, but these new puma cpus seem to run their memory at 800mhz compared to 667mhz on the older x2, at least mine does. still the high latency( 6,6,6,20), probably offset any gain in speed though.

 

Even the SI-40 Sempron is part of the Puma chipset rollout.....

 

I laughed so hard at that That's pretty much it. The Puma platform comes with the godly IGP HD 3200. But the CPU side of it loses out to Intel. Big time.

 

thankx guys for the advices
that was really helpful
I may consider another laptop with t8100 cpu.

 

actually, the zm-80 and higher is not significantly slower than any C2D to date, it seems slower on paper, but real world usage? no difference.

 

it is significantly slower if you use it for anything that is cpu intensive. such as games, video encoding, large file extraction and compression. I have even seen a 2.6Ghz Puma in a HP in one of the reviews here equal a ULV Core 2 Duo in benchmarks. So yeah the AMD chip is much slower than Core 2 Duo chips and they run hotter and consume more battery life. They do have a positive side though, really cheap and comes with decent integrated graphics.

 

I had a T7500 C2D in my last laptop, now i have a ZM . And the ZM beat my old cpu in WPrime32, and my Turion X2 ZM runs cooler. Battery life is worse, but that could also be because of the GPU.