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    Different benchmarks (comparing TZ vs. P)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ninjastyle, Feb 24, 2009.

  1. ninjastyle

    ninjastyle Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone,

    I'm trying to decide between a Vaio P and a Vaio TZ, so I've been culling the performance benchmarks from various reviews. But they still don't give me a good sense for how the two compare, performance-wise.

    For example:

    wPrime 32M
    Vaio P Vista, 172s
    Vaio P Win 7, 155s
    Vaio TZ Core2Duo U7600 1.2GHz, 76s
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    PCMark05
    Vaio P Vista, 972
    Vaio P Win 7, 1175
    Vaio TZ Core2Duo U7600 1.2GHz, 2445
    ​

    3DMark06
    Vaio P Vista, 88
    Vaio P Win 7, 71
    Vaio TZ Core2Duo U7600 1.2GHz, 122​

    CrystalMark2004R3
    Vaio P 1.6GHz, 128GB SSD, Vista:
    Mark 26336
    ALU 5384
    FPU 4271
    MEM 3767
    HDD 11277
    GDI 1303
    D2D 106
    OGL 228​

    CrystalMark2004R2
    TZ170N, 2GB RAM, 1.06GHz U7500, 100GB UATA HDD
    Mark 32655
    ALU 9344
    FPU 9635
    MEM 5305
    HDD 3313
    GDI 2959
    D2D 1787
    OGL 312​

    Unfortunately, the configurations are not all equivalent, so no direct comparisons can be made. But if you were to look at these results broadly, what would this tell me about what the P vs. TZ comparison?

    Anyone who has used both who could provide some impressions here? Basically I'm wondering whether the Vaio P could be "good enough" for moderate statistical computing (SAS, Matlab, R, SPSS). On my old single core laptop, some of my models would tie up the computer for hours, and I'm hoping that the P can do better than that.
     
    ninjastyle, Feb 24, 2009
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  2. MidnightSun

    MidnightSun Emodicon

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    If you're looking for any performance besides running basic internet programs, word processing, and email, the Vaio P won't outperform your old single core by too much, depending on the specs of your old laptop. The P has an Atom processor, which is much much lower than the Core 2 Duos in any CPU-intensive task.
     
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