Pentium M - P4 equivalent

[gazsharpe101]

Hi, I have been told that a Pentium M 1.73Ghz for my laptop is equiavalent to a Desktop Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, does anyone know if this is correct?

Thank You.
Gareth.

[gshv]

Yes, its average performance will be about the same.

Gennadiy

[Wizzard1]

Yeah, different architecture different performance. Thats why a 6GHz Celeron-D around the same as a 5GHz P-D 805 about the same as 4Ghz Athlon 64x2 about the same as a 3GHz C2D.

Also, trivia, I believe that the P3 architecture carried over to the Pentium Mobile, and then evolved into the Core technology. The p4 series was dropped, very low performance for it's high power use and clock speed.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong!

[D.8080]

When you see a PIII outperform a P4 at same clock speed, there gotta be some problem in the architecture... even if we speak about pipelines where is the innovation?

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/235



I had a P4 these days for repair, it performs almost same as my block heater though so I could shut down the resistance heater!!

[CPUShack]

Pentium-M and Core2 are PIII architecture, wrapped in a P4 wrapper (for P4 bus interfacing)

Intels P4 architecture was a complete failure, thus the need to revert back to the PIII

[Wizzard1]

I have a p3 which outperforms a p4, I call it Tualatin OUtperforms a p4 at a similar clock speed, up to 1.5GHz for the p3/1.4GHz.

Quad pumped bus is great, dont get me wrong, but everything else about Netburst....Yeah.... I'm gonna look the other way now that Core is taking over

It all started with i740 and Rambus..... They tried too hard!

[Mixeur]

i740 was a graphic card. It was great, really cheap and quite powerful.
I still have one in one of my PC.