Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Intel Pentium M vs. AMD Turion 64

Being an avid laptop fan, I found this article very interesting. I wondered when AMD will come to the party with some real laptop CPUs, the previous attempts were running too hot for my liking. It seems my next laptop will still be a Pentium M, but it is good to see that AMD is making some progress. The mentioned article is available here.

What I do find very interesting is the advantage the Pentium M has over the Turion when the level 2 cache is used. I suspect the level 2 cache plays a rather prominent role in compiling code, which is way my next laptop will again be a Pentium M.

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