Turion 64 X2 vs. Pentium Dual Core

We all know that the Turion 64 X2 processors suck compared to the Core 2 Duos. However, what about the "Pentium Dual Core" processors? Do they fare well against the Turion 64 X2 CPU's? I've tried googling for benchmarks, but they're hard to find because most of the search results lead to articles about Pentium D.

 

I certainly wouldn't say that Turion X2 processors "suck", just that there a little slower to their Intel counterparts. But the Turion X2 should perform about the same, and probably slightly better against the Pentium Dual Core. The Pentium Dual Core comes with 1 MB L2 cache, which gives the Turion X2 a slight advantage, but only in some processor intensive applications. Most tasks, which don't require any processring power, will be performed the same on either processor.

 

Pentium D CPUs ? if so, my 3GHz P-D has 2MB L2, and scores just slightly under an athlon X2 4800 and over an athlon X2 4400 I have benchmarked all 3. but these are desktop processors...

 

Turion's are a littler slower (1-15% depending on the task

They don't 'suck'

TL-60 is a Rocket. sulk is not the word I would use.

there are a few(very few) benchmarks where the turions are faster

 

I belive the OP was reffering to the "Pentium Dual Core", which is basically a Core Duo processor with half the L2 cache, and with a slightly slower FSB at 533 MHz. They can normally be found in most budget notebooks.

 

They definetly don't suck in fact they can be had quite a bit cheaper which is nice.

 

An official from AMD also announced that 65 nm Turion X2s should be available soon, which will further increase the battery life of AMD based notebooks.

 

Depending on the usage, the X2's are actually quite competitive processors. They have much better memory access patterns, so anything that is slowed down by random memory accesses (rather than sequential) will almost certainly be sped up by the X2's.

But they will almost always be faster than the Pentium D's, which is what I'm assuming you're talking about. The Pentium D is just two Pentium 4 cores stuck into the same package, and the Pentium 4 was barely passable next to the Athlon and Turion CPU's, definitely lost in almost all aspects of performance.

 

As previously stated, he is referring to the Pentium Dual Core Mobile CPUs no the Pentium D. Theyre the new budget laptop CPUs. I would say the turion would be quicker but I havent seen the benchmarks for them.

 

do you mean Intel CoreDuo or Core2Duo?

regards

John.

 

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium_dual-core/index.htm

this is what he is talking about

it's not the Pentium D or Core Duo or C2D

it's a toned down version of the Core Duo

 

Neither - the Pentium Dual-Core. It's a 'new' budget dual-core processor from Intel, based on the Core Duo and stripped down (only has 533MHz FSB and a 1MB L2).

Edit: I was beat by SideSwipe. Nice post.

 

hjehe must be my lucky day

http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/pentium_dual-core.htm

specifically Intel seems to have only one of them, the T2060 according to their site

 

Intel is usually quiet about their budget mobile processors (for example, the T2250/T5200 and so on were never on Intel's original roadmap). They actually have a Pentium Dual-Core T2080, just released; they refreshed all of their budget mobile CPUs:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3645

 

I don't understand what's with Intel's new marketing scheme; there's no consistency whatsoever. They still have Celeron as the super-duper budget CPU line and they still offer Core (Yonah) CPU's as budget options too. To add insult to injury, the new budget line for desktop CPU's is called "Pentium E" and there don't seem to be any new desktop Celerons in sight.

 

they probably offer older CPUs cuz of excess stock plus the more variety at varied prices helps them target consumers who might consider AMD alternatives.

 

True, but nobody still knows what to think regarding Pentium Dual-Core and Celeron.

 

The Pentium Dual Core T2060 benchmarks very similarly to the Turion X2 TL-56 1.8GHz.

 

Can you show us any? If that were true, then I would feel very sorry for AMD.