How good are the intel core solo proc

The one I am looking at is Intel Core Solo Processor T1300 (1.66GHz/667MHz FSB). Does this run at exactly 1.66ghz or is it run higher becasue it is a core solo?

 

They are pretty good and are the replacement for the Pentium M. They will definately faster than the P-M given that they have 667MHz bus compared to the P-M's 533MHz.

It will run at 1.66GHz, but that clock speed is not comparable to the Pentium 4(if thats what you meant when you said "run higher becasue it is a core solo")

 

Thanks. So comparing it to a pentium 4 1.66 it is alot fast or about the same?

 

I've heard that the standard P-M's processing capability can be multiplied by 1.7 for a rough estimate against a P-4. That means a 1.66 GHz P-M would be equal to about a 3.0 GHz P-4. (I could have my numbers wrong) Since the Solo-Cores have a higher bus speed you can expect even better performance than that. It's not the fastest on the market, but you wouldn't be cutting yourself short unless you were doing really intensive stuff.

 

It is a lot faster than a Pentium 4 @ 1.6GHz. It is more or less comparable to a P4 @ 2.8-3.2GHz. The Core solo or Pentium M or any AMD based processor is able to do more work per cloakc cycle, so they do not need the high clock as a P4 to get the same performance.

 

I would say that with the faster bus speed factored in, it would probably be 2x the P4 speed. so a 1.66 should be around 3.0-3.2GHz, rough estimate, unless I overestimated the bus speed importance, the P4 is going to be faster in encoding, but also gives off much more heat and as miner said is much less efficient in work done per clock cycle, as well as drains the battery much faster.

Matt

 

My 2.00ghz Pentium-M is comparable to my desktop's AMD Athlon XP-M@2200mhz and it even surpasses it in some cases.

So just compare it in terms of Mhz to an Athlon XP processor, but slightly faster in some apps.

Cheers,
Mike

 

A heck of a lot faster. Around 1.8 - 1.9x as fast (usually I say 1.6, but we're talking about the P-M replacement, not the P-M, so I figured I'd add a little).

 

I don't think the bus speed is going to be THAT important for the solo. Just remembering moving from 400 to 533MHz on the P-M the gain was minimal, around 5%, so I would n't imagine the gain to be more than that over the P-M, if not less.

Given the choice between 1.66 solo, and 1.8 P-M, I think the 1.8 P-M will be faster, and hence the better choice. Problem is even with the faster FSB the new 667MHz RAMs have a very high latency, so the memory bandwidth gain is almost none existant and that won't help (in contrast to the time when we moved from DDR333 to DDR2 533, where the boost was very important).

Just my speculations