AMD's Slides Showing That It's Faster Than Intel
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Those are some mighty fine numbers you've got there, AMD.
Last week when AMD officially launched its new ultrathin mobile platform codename Congo and the mainstream notebook platform codename Tigris, the chipmaker also provided in its marketing material benchmark charts showing what it believes are key performance advantages over Intel's offerings.
While we won't be able to confirm any of these performance characteristics until we get our hands on test platforms, but if these numbers are true – particularly for the ultrathin category – then we're excited to see competition in the mobile segment.
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Two, this says nothing about price, which is just as an important consideration as performance (not saying AMD can give those numbers, just saying that these numbers are not important without a price)
Just the CPU frequency mean around 10-14% more for AMD.
And the video card mean probably the difference in gaming.
And they don't talk about power comsumption.
This comparasion mean nothing!!!
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There's also the fact that the AMD machine is a .1" screen based laptop vs Intel's 12.1".
In the mainstream system comparison they don't even mention the CPU clockspeeds tested specifically although looking up the product parts, the Core 2 Duo P9600 is a 2.66GHz part (capable of 1066MHz DDR3 memory instead of the 800MHz DDR2 memory used) and the AMD part is 2.6GHz too so that's close enough, however the benchmarks could still easily be explained by the differing integrated GPUs used.
Anyhow, they should stop showing those charts till they include more fair cimbos from Intel's side too for the consumer that isnt aware of the reasons for such difference.
And as for using Intel with a NVIDIA chipset, sure you could do that, but Intel does NOT market their product in that way. Especially not with upcoming pinetrail and larrabee products.
It's not impossible to stick a 2 or 4 core in a netbook, but the battery will suffer tremendously.
It seems AMD is aiming for a 11-13" laptop sector, with a crippled down processor.
If they would focus on the netbook sector, they should at least record battery life!
When will they actually give an unbiased comparison? I guess when they want to admit that Intel is better
AMD Tigris solution is more attractive than Intel Centrino 2 solution in most cases. However, AMD's CPU line is no comparison to up coming Intel mobile Core i7 line. What AMD could do is to push DX11 integrated graphics as fast as possible, to push for OpenCL calculation.