Which processor would be faster?

I'm thinking of buying a Sager NP7682 which has a ~Intel® T3400 "Montevina" Core™ Duo 2.16GHz w/1MB L2 On-die cache - 667MHz FSB for a processor, I'm an old techie so I grew up around more clock speed is better. The computer in my siggy has more clock speed, so would the new processor be slower or faster? And why? Thanks to anyone who is willing to spend time helping me out.

 

T3400 is slightly faster in Passmark's benchmark.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

Here too: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html

 

That makes no sense, why is the new processor faster? [/answersownquestion] But seriously, it makes no sense to me. :confused2:

 

There's more at work that just clockspeed. Architecture has come a very long way, and clock for clock CPU's are more efficient with every generation. Another thing that's constantly on the rise is cpu cache, which is generally anywhere from 2-6MB nowadays. This typically used to be closer to 512KB.

 

I don't know why it says "Montevina" in that processor's description, but that certainly isn't a montevina processor. A Core Duo (not core2 duo) is quite old -dating back to about 2006.
Are you buying this computer used? If not, go for something that actually uses Montevina, so you're not investig in old technology.

 

It's Core 2 duo...

 

Its a Merom core based processor, which was released on the newer montevina systems.

Keep in mind that clockspeed isnt everything. Theres other factors like, core count, quicker 45/65nm process, better sets of cpu instructions and multi-threading capabilities.

Also newer technologies they put in CPU's which usually have some sort of cool name but we have no clue what it actually does or if it really works.

 

T3400 is one of the latest Dual Core CPUs that beats many older Core 2 Duo CPUs.