Intel Yonah Performance Preview - Part I: The Exclusive First Look at Yonah
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 30, 2005 2:50 AM EST- Posted in
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Multitasking Performance
Business Winstone 2004 includes a multitasking test as a part of its suite, which does the following:
"This test uses the same applications as the Business Winstone test, but runs some of them in the background. The test has three segments: in the first, files copy in the background while the script runs Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer in the foreground. The script waits for both foreground and background tasks to complete before starting the second segment. In that segment, Excel and Word operations run in the foreground while WinZip archives in the background. The script waits for both foreground and background tasks to complete before starting the third segment. In that segment, Norton AntiVirus runs a virus check in the background while Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft FrontPage, and WinZip operations run in the foreground."
When it comes to multitasking performance, the 2.0GHz Yonah remains quite competitive with the X2 3800+. We were curious as to whether or not the shared L2 cache would mean that single-to-dual core scaling would be improved at all, but to really answer that question we'll need a single core Yonah...
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monsoon - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
i am waiting for overclocking tests and most of all the coming release of a MAC MINI with this baby inside. I'm going to run windows on it if possible ( so does it come with VT or not ? ). Hopefully january won't be a let down from apple...tfranzese - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Are you dense?Ask yourself: What's the mini's price point? Now, what do you think this chip's price point will be?
I think you're dreaming.
Furen - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
I wouldnt quite put it like that. I think single-core Yonahs will find themselves thrown into the cheaper Mac Minis, I dunno if apple will actually make a premium version with the dual-core CPUs.forPPP - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
I don't understand all those comments that AMD is 2 year ahead because Athlon 64 X2 3800+ is on average 8% faster.Yohan is MOBILE cpu, while Athlon 64 X2 is desktop. Please compare Yohan with Turion and then complain.
Intel has lead with 65 nm technology which means AMD won't catch it up for very long in mobile market. Turion dual core at 90 nm will be far far behind Yohan.
rpsgc - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Yonah is a 65nm dual-core, Turion is a 90nm single-core....
forPPP - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
[quote]Yonah is a 65nm dual-core, Turion is a 90nm single-core....[/quote]And that's why for now there is nothing to compare. Yonah is its in own class. Even "Turion Dual Core" will be behind it, because of power consumption problem.
tfranzese - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Really? I can't pick a notebook up today that has one, so comparing a processor that's been shipping for quite some time to this one means little.
Further, no one seems to point it out, but does Yonah not have 64-bit extensions? If not, now that near every desktop CPU sold today has them it'd be a real shame if 64-bit Windows development gained momentum.
forPPP - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Great point. You are right. It's the biggest disadvantage of the Yonah.
Viditor - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
WHAT power consumption problem?
Shintai - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Maybe the power problem with adding over twice the transistors.Dothan->Yonah ~140mio to ~151mio ~8% more transistors
Turion->Turion X2 ~105mio to ~233mio(X2 current) ~121% more transistors.
And transistors = powerusage.