Just wondering how accurate this site actually is, and can you take the ratings for face value? I.E. if one processor has a PassMark rating of 2,000, another has a PassMark rating of 2,100, and another has a PassMark rating of 2,200, is it really as easy as saying the one with the score of 2,200 is the better CPU? Especially wondering when it comes to comparing desktop/laptop CPU's to one another.
The site is here, for those who don't know it:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
Anyway, I was looking to buy a cheap laptop in the $300-$500 range, but I wanted it to perform the same (or only slightly worse/better), than a Desktop PC with an AMD Athlon II X2 250, which has a PassMark rating of 1,703.
I've been looking at Best Buy for laptops, and I found a Samsung for $300 that has an Intel Pentium T4500. Now, referencing the list, it gets a PassMark score of 1,576, which isn't too much less than what I'm looking for, so my question is, would it actually perform close to the same, or are those scores artificial and not as easy to compare simply as lower number = worse, higher number = better?
Another one I was looking at, for instance, was an ASUS for $330, that had an Intel Pentium B960, which has a PassMark score of 2,090. So would it be correct to assume that it would perform slightly better than the AMD Athlon II X2 250 that I am trying to compare it to?
There are quite a few other laptops with various CPU's that I'm also looking at, but don't want to lengthen the post and waste anyone's time by showing ALL of them. I'm just wondering in general if you can actually compare CPU's based on the PassMark scores, and get a somewhat correct assumption of how a CPU will perform against another CPU. I know in many cases benchmarking software will make use of multiple cores, and therefore a dual-core processor may rate higher on the PassMark chart, being benchmarked with a program that takes advantage of multiple cores, while it may perform worse than other single-core CPU's when using programs that don't make use of extra core's. So that's something I'd have to think about as well.
I'm also not sure how the scores between Desktop/Laptop CPU's compare. For instance a Desktop CPU score of 2,000 may be a better score than a Laptop CPU score of 2,000, however, I am unsure how all of that works.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
The site is here, for those who don't know it:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
Anyway, I was looking to buy a cheap laptop in the $300-$500 range, but I wanted it to perform the same (or only slightly worse/better), than a Desktop PC with an AMD Athlon II X2 250, which has a PassMark rating of 1,703.
I've been looking at Best Buy for laptops, and I found a Samsung for $300 that has an Intel Pentium T4500. Now, referencing the list, it gets a PassMark score of 1,576, which isn't too much less than what I'm looking for, so my question is, would it actually perform close to the same, or are those scores artificial and not as easy to compare simply as lower number = worse, higher number = better?
Another one I was looking at, for instance, was an ASUS for $330, that had an Intel Pentium B960, which has a PassMark score of 2,090. So would it be correct to assume that it would perform slightly better than the AMD Athlon II X2 250 that I am trying to compare it to?
There are quite a few other laptops with various CPU's that I'm also looking at, but don't want to lengthen the post and waste anyone's time by showing ALL of them. I'm just wondering in general if you can actually compare CPU's based on the PassMark scores, and get a somewhat correct assumption of how a CPU will perform against another CPU. I know in many cases benchmarking software will make use of multiple cores, and therefore a dual-core processor may rate higher on the PassMark chart, being benchmarked with a program that takes advantage of multiple cores, while it may perform worse than other single-core CPU's when using programs that don't make use of extra core's. So that's something I'd have to think about as well.
I'm also not sure how the scores between Desktop/Laptop CPU's compare. For instance a Desktop CPU score of 2,000 may be a better score than a Laptop CPU score of 2,000, however, I am unsure how all of that works.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you!