Intel Yonah Performance Preview - Part I: The Exclusive First Look at Yonah

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• monsoon - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

  i am waiting for overclocking tests and most of all the coming release of a MAC MINI with this baby inside. I'm going to run windows on it if possible ( so does it come with VT or not ? ). Hopefully january won't be a let down from apple...

• tfranzese - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

  Are you dense?
  
  Ask yourself: What's the mini's price point? Now, what do you think this chip's price point will be?
  
  I think you're dreaming.
  

• Furen - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

  I wouldnt quite put it like that. I think single-core Yonahs will find themselves thrown into the cheaper Mac Minis, I dunno if apple will actually make a premium version with the dual-core CPUs.

• forPPP - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

  I don't understand all those comments that AMD is 2 year ahead because Athlon 64 X2 3800+ is on average 8% faster.
  Yohan is MOBILE cpu, while Athlon 64 X2 is desktop. Please compare Yohan with Turion and then complain.
  Intel has lead with 65 nm technology which means AMD won't catch it up for very long in mobile market. Turion dual core at 90 nm will be far far behind Yohan.

• rpsgc - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

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  Please compare Yohan with Turion and then complain.

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  Yonah is a 65nm dual-core, Turion is a 90nm single-core....

• forPPP - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

  [quote]Yonah is a 65nm dual-core, Turion is a 90nm single-core....[/quote]
  And that's why for now there is nothing to compare. Yonah is its in own class. Even "Turion Dual Core" will be behind it, because of power consumption problem.

• tfranzese - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

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  Yonah is its in own class.

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  Really? I can't pick a notebook up today that has one, so comparing a processor that's been shipping for quite some time to this one means little.
  
  Further, no one seems to point it out, but does Yonah not have 64-bit extensions? If not, now that near every desktop CPU sold today has them it'd be a real shame if 64-bit Windows development gained momentum.

• forPPP - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

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  Further, no one seems to point it out, but does Yonah not have 64-bit extensions? If not, now that near every desktop CPU sold today has them it'd be a real shame if 64-bit Windows development gained momentum.

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  Great point. You are right. It's the biggest disadvantage of the Yonah.

• Viditor - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

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  Even "Turion Dual Core" will be behind it, because of power consumption problem

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  WHAT power consumption problem?

• Shintai - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link

  Maybe the power problem with adding over twice the transistors.
  
  Dothan->Yonah ~140mio to ~151mio ~8% more transistors
  Turion->Turion X2 ~105mio to ~233mio(X2 current) ~121% more transistors.
  
  And transistors = powerusage.