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Mobile CPU Wars: Core 2 Duo vs. Core Duo

 by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 3, 2006 9:25 AM EST
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Gaming Performance using F.E.A.R. & Rise of Legends

We ran F.E.A.R. at low quality graphics settings and were still not able to get any performance difference between Core Duo and Core 2 Duo:

Gaming Performance - F.E.A.R.

Just for reference, running at High Quality graphics settings dropped average frame rate from 64 fps to 38 fps, so we're pretty clearly GPU bound here.

Rise of Legends wouldn't let us select a resolution lower than 1024 x 768, so we stuck with the panel's native resolution of 1280 x 800 for the numbers below:

Gaming Performance - Rise of Legends

Being a more CPU-bound game, we did see a 4% difference in performance here, but still nothing spectacular. We are still GPU bound, however, but if you look at the numbers for RoL on Conroe you can see that the Core 2 CPU really seems to do well in the game.

Gaming Performance using Quake 4, Battlefield 2 & Half Life 2 Episode 1 Gaming Performance using Oblivion
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  • IntelUser2000 - Saturday, August 5, 2006 - link

    quote:
    It was interesting to compare the numbers in this review with the previous Core 2 Duo desktop review where 2MB vs 4MB L2 cache was examined (although at 1,83GHz/1066)

    http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...

    Its not a perfect comparison but from what I can gather, there are significant improvements performance wise coming from the core, even in the non-FP/SSE related benchmarks. A favorite argument among some people is that the extra cache makes all the difference, I hope this will shut them up! (tho I really doubt it)


    Correct. Lots of the benchmarks show 10% advantage for Core 2 Duo over Core Duo. The only 10% advantage 4MB L2 over 2MB L2 is in a single app.

  • bob661 - Thursday, August 3, 2006 - link

    Video makes ALL the difference in the world.

  • monsoon - Thursday, August 3, 2006 - link

    I'm in the market for a mini PC to do video trancode, and I was considering the MEROM chip to compare to YONAH...

    ...in the end, given the right graphic card ( add ATI X1400 series or higher here ) with hardware embedded transcode features, i guess the YONAH fits my bill just right.

    And i get to pay 100$ or 200$ less than the same computer with a MEROM which could not offer me better on the video side...

    What do you think ?

  • bob661 - Thursday, August 3, 2006 - link

    I would get the best video you can get with the cash saved from getting the Memron.

  • Tiamat - Thursday, August 3, 2006 - link

    Whats the difference between the Intel Core Duo T2300E* and the Intel Core Duo T2300E?

    I see a difference in price, but not specs. The page in the article does not address the asterisk...

  • Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, August 3, 2006 - link

    The asterisk means that the CPU lacks support for Intel Virtualization Technology (VT). I had the note on Page 3 but I forgot to include it on Page 2 :) Thanks for the heads up :)

    Take care,
    Anand
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