How do you interpret benchmark scores?

I found these benchmark scores on cpubenchmark.net:

Intel Pentium M 725: 395
Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300: 1014

Does this mean that the SU7300 is roughly 3 times faster than the Pentium M 725?

 

phew...

Well, I'd rather say you can say that it can perform three times as many calculations in a given time interval.

You're also comparing a single core to a dual core if I'm not mistaken.

The most basic conclusion is though, that the SU7300 is more than twice as powerful.

Also, what kind of benchmark was it? Single threaded, dual threaded?

 

Good question...I have no idea

Here is a description of the test from the website:

 

OK.... good that's good news - now how is the score calculated?

The single core one is easy.

The Dual Core one - is the result for every core added together? Or is that the average between cores?

If its all cores added, then its a difficult one, if its the average between cores then you can divide and say its 3,x times better.

 

Thanks! From the website description it appears it is the latter

 

I didn't quite actually think it through - if its the average between cores then its 3,x times better per core.

So for a task with two threads it would be 3,x * 2 times better than the single core.

 

it is faster but not way faster... compared to a normal core 2 duo...