Intel Core Duo (Yonah) Performance Preview - Part II @ AnandTech

Vikingod · Dec 19, 2005, 06:20 PM

At the end of November we finally did what we had been waiting to do for so long - provide the first performance benchmarks of Intel’s Yonah processor, the dual core successor to the highly acclaimed Pentium M. However, our initial performance investigation was not without its flaws. Given the short amount of time we had for benchmarking we were forced to compare to older numbers from previous reviews, which unfortunately lacked updated gaming, encoding and 3D rendering tests.

Despite the shortcomings of the initial article, we did manage to get a good look at the performance we could expect from Yonah. Mainly, that it was a fairly strong successor to the single core Pentium M and even more impressive was that it offered performance equal to that of AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 without an on-die memory controller. Many AnandTech readers kept our methods in check however by quickly pointing out that the Yonah vs. Athlon 64 X2 comparison wasn’t exactly fair, as Yonah is equipped with a full 2MB of L2 cache, whereas the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ we were comparing it against only had 512KB per processor, possibly painting Yonah in a better light.
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Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Intel Core Duo (Yonah) Performance Preview - Part II @ AnandTech At the end of November we finally did what we had been waiting to do for so long - provide the first performance benchmarks of Intel’s Yonah processor, the dual core successor to the highly acclaimed Pentium M. However, our initial performance investigation was not without its flaws. Given the short amount of time we had for benchmarking we were forced to compare to older numbers from previous reviews, which unfortunately lacked updated gaming, encoding and 3D rendering tests. Despite the shortcomings of the initial article, we did manage to get a good look at the performance we could expect from Yonah. Mainly, that it was a fairly strong successor to the single core Pentium M and even more impressive was that it offered performance equal to that of AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 without an on-die memory controller. Many AnandTech readers kept our methods in check however by quickly pointing out that the Yonah vs. Athlon 64 X2 comparison wasn’t exactly fair, as Yonah is equipped with a full 2MB of L2 cache, whereas the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ we were comparing it against only had 512KB per processor, possibly painting Yonah in a better light. __________ Read More / Source: AnandTech