AMD or Intel

[Matthieu Hueck]

> It seems I would like to goto the AMD route because of the 64bit
> compatabality (yea..I am a victim of Marketing).
> 
> What is the major difference between AMD64, Turion, and Sempron?
> 
AMD64 is their main chip, it's geared towards maximum performance. Turion is
their low-power notebook chip like Intels Pentium M and Sempron is their
budget version of the AMD64, comparable to Intels Celeron processor.

> 
> On 7/13/05, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> > Astrodog wrote:
> >
> > >>I purchased an e-machines AMD laptop in April and had nothing but
> > >>problems with cooling.  The machine constantly over heated.  So, if
> you
> > >>go the AMD route.  Make sure you do some research and specifically
> > >>cooling issues.
> > >>
> > >>Ray
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >As a quick note, AMD Mobiles (Athlon64 Mobile, etc), tend to consume
> > >less power than comparable Intels (Non-Mobile P4s, Mobile EEs, etc).
> > >The overheating issue is most likely an e-machines issue, than an AMD
> > >one, per se. That being said, one thing to note on the AMD line, is
> > >that there really isn't a true low power mobile processor, either. Its
> > >basically Athlon64, Turion(sp), or Semperon, none of which would
> > >compare to say Pentium M, on power usage as far as I'm aware.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > I think that's not exactly true. (Well, the conclusion may not be wrong,
> > but the reasoning is <g>).
> > Turion64-CPUs consume about as much (or little) energy as Pentium-M
> chips.
> > But due to better overall design, the total power-consumption of
> > "Centrino"-laptops is some Watts less than that of Turion64-powered
> ones.
> >
> > http://www.amd.com/us-
> en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_12651_12658,00.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Rainer