Intel's Centrino CPU (Pentium-M): Revolutionizing the Mobile World
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 12, 2003 6:10 AM EST- Posted in
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The Test
For this review we used FIC's Centrino for our Pentium-M 1.5GHz system, and the IBM T40P for the 1.60GHz Pentium-M system.
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Windows
XP Professional Test System
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Hardware
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Dell
Latitude D800
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FIC Centrino | IBM T40 | IBM T40P |
Desktop
System
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| CPU(s) |
Pentium
M 1.6GHz
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Pentium
M 1.5GHz
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Pentium
M 1.5GHz
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Pentium
M 1.6GHz
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Pentium
4 2.4GHz
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| Motherboard(s) |
Dell
855PM
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FIC
855PM
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IBM
855PM
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IBM
855PM
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Intel
D845EBT 845E
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| Memory |
512MB
PC2100
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512MB
PC2100
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256MB
PC2100
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512MB
PC2100
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512MB
PC2100
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| Hard Drive |
40GB
5400RPM
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30GB
4200RPM
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40GB
5400RPM
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40GB
5400RPM
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IBM
Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM
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| CDROM |
CD-RW/DVD
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CD-RW/DVD
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CD-RW/DVD
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CD-RW/DVD
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Philips
48X
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA
GeForce4 4200 Go 64MB DDR
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Integrated
855PM
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ATI
Mobility Radeon 7500
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ATI
Mobility FireGL 9000 64MB DDR
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ATI
Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB |
| Ethernet |
Onboard
Intel Gigabit
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Onboard
Intel Pro/100VE
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Onboard
Intel Gigabit
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Onboard
Intel Gigabit
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Linksys
LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter
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Software
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Operating System |
Windows XP Professional SP1 |
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| Video Drivers |
NVIDIA
42.56
(latest available for Dell) |
Intel
6.13.01.3460
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ATI
6.13.10.6278
(latest available for IBM) |
ATI
7.79.7.3 (latest available for IBM)
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ATI
Catalyst 3.1
NVIDIA 41.09 |
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Benchmarking Applications
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Bapco
SysMark 2002 |
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zigCorsair - Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - link
I thought it was a very informative article. Of course, I'll be upset if it's biased, but being a master's student in CS, many of the exact details I was looking for were in here, and for that I say thank you.Zebo - Monday, May 10, 2004 - link
I don't see whats so impressive. An athlon mobile 2600/2800 xp 35W version, which runs ~2000Mhz will kill these. To little to late.Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - link
how the hell could this be a balanced and informative article when in their own analysis they ignored their own data?There is no mention of the anamolous nature of the BAPCO test..absolutely NOTHING...
Its enough for me to question the competency of this site...and even to the point where I suspect that certain unethical compromises have been made.
Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - link
Yeah, I agree with Sprockkets... same reason Athlon XP loses to the P4 in this benchmark... someone was trying to make the P4 look better, and everything else look worse. Now all the sudden, this new great CPU is getting it's but kicked because of all the P4 optimizations (and probably non-P4 deoptomizations).sprockkets - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 - link
I wonder why the P4 trashes the PM on Content Creation Performance and nothing else? Maybe it's the stupid skewing toward the P4. Why else would it lose here and kick butt everywhere else? www.theinquirer.net has an article which brought this to readers attention.Anonymous User - Thursday, August 21, 2003 - link
"Without a trace cache, the design team was forced to develop a more accurate branch predictor unit for the Banias core. Although beyond the scope of this article, Banias was outfitted with a branch predictor significantly superior to what was in the Pentium III. The end result was a reduction of mispredicted branches by around 20%."Wouldn't he mean that the branch predictor was superior to the P4?
Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - link
looks goodAnonymous User - Friday, August 8, 2003 - link
An outstanding well balanced article, after this read I feel I really know about Centrino. Thanks