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    Excuse me if am asking something stupid but - E6850 c2d vs i5-520m.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by chadsxe, Aug 1, 2010.

  1. chadsxe

    chadsxe Notebook Geek

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    HI,

    I have been doing a bit of research as to which one of these two processors out performs the other. Currently I have an E6850 c2d in my desktop and was wonder what mobile processors out perform it. For instance...

    This site says...

    the E6850 outperforms the i5-520m. But

    This site tells a different story.

    Not sure what I should be trusting. Any input would be great.

    Thanks

    Chad
     
    chadsxe, Aug 1, 2010
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  2. nikeseven

    nikeseven Notebook Deity

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    Different benchmarks = different outcomes. It depends on what you would be using the processor for program wise. The i5 does support hyper-threading so that would give some some amount of performance boost over the C2D though.
     
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  3. chadsxe

    chadsxe Notebook Geek

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    Well how would I determine what processor outperforms the other processor on any given program?

    Regards

    Chad
     
    chadsxe, Aug 1, 2010
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  4. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Again it is going to depend on the program. What programs will you be running?

    The processors will likely have similar performance; the C2D has a clockspeed advantage but the i5 is faster per-clock. In single-threaded applications the i5 should definitely be faster since it can turbo boost to 2.93GHz, which is very close to what the E6850 runs at.
    Put it this way - you are not looking at a significant increase or decrease in performance.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 1, 2010
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  5. chadsxe

    chadsxe Notebook Geek

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    I will be running

    Visual Studio 2010
    light work in Photoshop - Dreamweaver - Flash - CS5
    Office 2010

    I am confused at to what will run what better.

    Regards

    Chad
     
    chadsxe, Aug 2, 2010
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  6. Althernai

    Althernai Notebook Virtuoso

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    Are you sure that's what it says? As far as I can tell, the 520M is equal or better in every single benchmark except single threaded Cinebench and even there the E6850 is only ahead by about 1% (3057 vs 3024). Remember that for many of these benchmarks, the result is a time and thus the lower result is better.

    The 520M is the better processor -- there are some pathological cases where the E6850 prevails, but for the most part the 520M will win out. That said, it is not much of an upgrade (it's better, but not radically so).
     
    Althernai, Aug 2, 2010
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