It's a shame that this chip (Yonah) didn't do anything against the Athlon 64 X2 in performance (well, it just won about 2 or 3 tests). All that buzz about Yonah this, Yonah the other and here it is. It didn't compete well against the Athlon 64 X2 3800 and it lost in multitasking badly. Even in gaming (where the Pentium M is competitive against the K8) it no longer holds the performance crown.
Yeah, but for a
mobile chip to hold up that well? And to use that little electricity while doing it? AMD's performance per watt argument is just going right out the window. Sadly, the Intel/AMD debate is sliding right back to where it used to be: AMD for gaming, Intel for business. :roll:
This can prove what I've said in other threads about Dothan's excelllent performance thanks to their low-latency L2 cache (going from 10 cycles to 14 cycles, it really hurts this chip performance).
Uh, I don't know what reviews you've been reading, but in the ones that I read, Dothan suffered the same losses that Yonah did. The FPU performance just isn't quite there. So in games it lags a little behind AMD. I agree that the L2 latency increase is a bummer, but I don't see where it changed
any of the PM vs A64 dynamics. It's still the same old game there.
In the other hand, I'm still impressed that AMD, using 90nm (which runs cool)technology and still remaining with DDR1 still gives Intel a really hard time to their Yonah chip :lol: (Do we see a trend here?
).
I'm not sure what you're smoking, but DDR1 typically performs
better than DDR2. DDR2's latencies were quite nasty in the beginning and they're only just now getting under control. But that aside, a skilled tweaker can kick DDR2's butt using DDR1.
Once AMD goes to 65nm process, power consumption will minimize a lot.
The one question really on my mind is does Yonah use SoI yet? I mean if it does use SoI, then that's why the power usage is so low, which would indicate that AMD probably won't gain much just from the process shrink alone. (Since AMD already uses SoI.) But if Yonah doesn't use SoI, and Intel got that all just from the process shrink alone, then AMD should do well from their own shrink.