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    AMD vs. Intel specific question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by glindawantsme17, Jun 3, 2009.

  1. glindawantsme17

    glindawantsme17 Notebook Consultant

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    The AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86 (2.4 GHz) would definitely perform better than the Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 (2.13GHz), right?
     
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    Depends.

    What are you basing your "performance" on?

    Pure benchmark? Pure FLOPS capabilities? ...etc
     
    jackluo923, Jun 3, 2009
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    No.... not at all actually.
     
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    If you're doing normal stuff, both processor will perform about the same.
     
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    Well.... that's discouraging.
     
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    However, real world performance will be very similar.

    There's a time when AMD athlon only need half the clock speed and still be able to beat Intel Pentium 4 in SuperPI. Though, the actual performance difference on regular applications isn't as significant as the differences in those benchmarks.
     
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    I had a 1.8Ghz Athlon (tyler core turion) X2 in my last laptop the cruddy TK-55. I regret ever having gotten it and would have rather had the middle pentium equivalent. My stock P7450 definitly pwned it but I have no direct benches and the amd processor your looking at is a nice but currently the amd average stepup.

    AMD models of laptops are slightly cheaper though amds real price market is in desktops. I think the Core 2 Duos perform better and is money well spent.
     
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    Well.. those athlons are like intel celerons...they're the cheapest dual core processor amd has. TK-55 should probably be compared to lowest end pentium dual core or intel celeron single cores.
     
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    AMDs are only good in the low end right now. Once you get towards the mid to upper end, Intel outperforms AMD by a lot.
     
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    Even in the low end Intel's T4200 is a better option than any AMD CPU as far as I know.

    It's only when GPU performance starts to matter that the AMD's HD3200 is better than 4500HMD.
     
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    Unless you do high demanding CPU specific programs, either will be fine, else then Intel would be better. If you are on a budget and do light gaming, AMD will be the better choice.
     
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    Well I'm trying to decide between HP's Tx2z and the HDX16t. I know they're polar opposite laptops, but I love them both. Basically what I do is the obvious like web surfing, word processing, iTunes, Hulu, Youtube, etc, plus light photo editing and pretty light gaming. Will the Tx2z's AMD ZM-86 handle those well? I really like the Tx2's form factor and tablet functionality, but if' I'm gonna be waiting forever to open a program I'll go with the 2.13 in the HDX.
     
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    Define light gaming? What games do you play? Really, everything is will run fine on both up to the point where you said gaming. The HD3200 of the tx2z will be fine for light gaming, but the 9600 of the HDX has it beat by far, in addition to the Intel Core 2 processor.
     
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    For your purposes, it sounds like the Tx2 is good enough. I wouldn't recommend gaming on a 12" unless you have an external monitor and the game doesn't require much resources.
     
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    By light gaming I mean games like all 3 Sims, Age of Mythology, and that's about it.
     
    glindawantsme17, Jun 5, 2009
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    I would classify the ZM-86, AMD's highest end mobile processor to a T8300 from Intel.
    Intel has the lead in sheer speed, but AMD processors are not a bad option. Most people do not need that marginal speed increase a higher end intel offers, so AMD is still a good alternative.
    The only problem is there are not many good AMD powered laptops on the market. It is pretty much dominated by Intel

    K-TRON
     
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    From what I understand AMD has not significantly updated their core architecture for 3-4 years not. The current turions are slightly tweaked and process shrank versions of the original Dual core turions released 3-4 years ago.

    Once they more to the stars core based mobile chips the playing field should level against Penryn. But by then intel would have moved to i7 based mobile chips.

    AMD made a huge mistake in pretty much paying lip-service to the mobile market for a couple of years now.
     
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    I wonder where the mobile Phenom is? I mean not that the Athlon 64 x2 is terrible, but it is blow away by a huge margin by a Core 2 (Conroe, let alone Penryn).
     
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    I vagely recall(don't quote me on it) it being scheduled to be released in the second half of this year from some AMD product maps.
     
    adesai, Jun 5, 2009
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