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<blockquote data-quote="vishalrao" data-source="post: 1039798" data-attributes="member: 15724"><p>A quick post about the CPU (rather than GPU) and that too for the Acer 5740 rather than Sony E - but since its the same proccy:</p><p></p><p>I'm spooked right now.</p><p></p><p>The Core i3 330M seems to be nearly giving my Q6600 a run for its money!</p><p></p><p>My 2.5 yr old AMD Turion x2 1.9 ghz laptop (65nm and costing nearly double then) is easily beaten.</p><p></p><p>Installed hardinfo (some good CPU tests) on linux and also ran:</p><p></p><p>[code]</p><p></p><p>time echo "scale=4000; a(1)*4" | bc -l</p><p></p><p>[/code]</p><p></p><p>which calculated Pi to 4000 digits according to some website I found it on...</p><p></p><p>These tests either used just one core or all available threads.</p><p></p><p>So, basically for single core (if you take Ghz extrapolation into account) i3 seems to be as fast as a single core of the 65nm Q6600 !</p><p></p><p>For multithreaded tests like the CryptoHash hardinfo test where both i3 and Q6600 have 4 threads running (first one thanks to HT and other being a quad core)... the Q6600 is just 50% faster (or i3 is 30% slower if you look at it the other way)... so Intel's latest HT must be working well <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>And Core i3 / 330M is a freaking <strong>mobile</strong> low power CPU compared to the power sapping Q6600...</p><p></p><p>Makes me want to throw out my desktop and get the latest upgrade <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>A real eye opener about how prices/speeds/power consumption has improved in the last two years...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vishalrao, post: 1039798, member: 15724"] A quick post about the CPU (rather than GPU) and that too for the Acer 5740 rather than Sony E - but since its the same proccy: I'm spooked right now. The Core i3 330M seems to be nearly giving my Q6600 a run for its money! My 2.5 yr old AMD Turion x2 1.9 ghz laptop (65nm and costing nearly double then) is easily beaten. Installed hardinfo (some good CPU tests) on linux and also ran: [code] time echo "scale=4000; a(1)*4" | bc -l [/code] which calculated Pi to 4000 digits according to some website I found it on... These tests either used just one core or all available threads. So, basically for single core (if you take Ghz extrapolation into account) i3 seems to be as fast as a single core of the 65nm Q6600 ! For multithreaded tests like the CryptoHash hardinfo test where both i3 and Q6600 have 4 threads running (first one thanks to HT and other being a quad core)... the Q6600 is just 50% faster (or i3 is 30% slower if you look at it the other way)... so Intel's latest HT must be working well :D And Core i3 / 330M is a freaking [b]mobile[/b] low power CPU compared to the power sapping Q6600... Makes me want to throw out my desktop and get the latest upgrade :) A real eye opener about how prices/speeds/power consumption has improved in the last two years... [/QUOTE]
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