Overall System Performance using WorldBench 5

Our final set of overall system performance tests come from WorldBench 5, which is a pretty good tool for looking at older application performance as well as single-threaded performance. 

WorldBench 5

Overall, the Core Duo does extremely well here despite its higher latency cache, offering performance equal to that of the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 5% greater than the Pentium M 760. 

The breakdown of the WorldBench 5 score is reported below. Note that the values below are task completion times in seconds with lower numbers translating into better performance.

  AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+  AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+  AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.0GHz/1MB  Intel Core Duo T2500  Intel Pentium M 760
ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0 537 574 572 544 545
Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 339 364 362 319 325
Adobe Premiere 6.5 388 402 400 405 404
Ahead Software Nero Express 6.0.0.3 507 509 506 512 510
Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (DirectX) 254 268 266 256 256
Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (OpenGL) 317 337 333 320 322
Microsoft Office XP with SP-2 524 531 536 531 505
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 283 304 301 295 415
Mozilla 1.4 360 440 411 338 310
Multitasking: Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder 445 484 445 439 634
MusicMatch Jukebox 7.10 483 527 531 511 529
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 262 278 277 267 400
WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 401 420 419 396 399

Overall System Performance using SYSMark 2004 Professional Application Performance with 3dsmax, Adobe Premier and Photoshop
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  • Hacp - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    If you want performance of an AMD X2 in a notebook package, the Yonah duo is the way to go.
  • Griswold - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    Or you wait for dual core Turion. Same thing.
  • Accord99 - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    But at 2-3x the power consumption.
  • Houdani - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...

    No need to exaggerate unnecessarily.
  • Accord99 - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    That's a system power consumption, I was referring to CPU only. And in a laptop environment, the power usage of the other components are much smaller so the impact of the CPU portion is greater. 90nm single Turions are already uncompetitive with Yonah, making them dual core will just make it worse.
  • saratoga - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    The difference will most likely be less then 2x judging by the relative power consumption of Dothan and Venice @ 90nm, so you're still wrong.

    Also, Yonah is a 65nm chip. It should not be surprising that it has an edge over 90nm chips.
  • Accord99 - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    Dothan vs Turion ML has a 2X or greater edge under load. Yonah has comparable power consumption to Dothan while 90nm dual core Turions will clearly go up. 3X is not out of the question for non-undervolted DC Turions.
  • Shintai - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    Ye I would guess on something like 35W will be 40-45W with 65nm Turion X2, unless you sacrifice speeds. The 25W part might be 35-40W.

    But Turion really never had a chance, since it´s not designed for low power. And as we already saw in the benchies. Who want a dualcore Turion running at 1.8Ghz or less against a 2.13Ghz Yonah when the yonah uses less power.

    Intel briliant move so Dothan->Yonah only gave 9% more transistors. Turion->Turion X2 will add 110-120% more transistors (Over 100% due to crossbar between CPUs).

    So Yonah will also be cheaper to make than a dualcore Turion.
  • Furen - Thursday, December 22, 2005 - link

    Intel did slice the "cache per core" in half with Yonah, so AMD could conceivably make Dual-core Turions have 512k per core, which would make the die-size increase around 50%, though this will probably have a greater impact on performance on the AMD side, since Dothan's cache was insanely huge to begin with.

    About the price: AMD Turions will always be cheaper than their direct analogs from Intel because AMD needs to perform the same AND have a better price for people to use it, otherwise they'll go with the market leader, so I dont think we'll ever be faced with chosing between a 1.8GHz Turion and a 2.13GHz Yonah. This is regardless of the production cost, though AMD's margins may take a big hit if Intel pushes prices hard enough.
  • bob661 - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    pnw3d

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