they really got my hopes up, when i first read the news about puma... but these benchmarks are aweful.... i really hope they only have to fix some driver issues and the final hardware is going to be more powerfull...
What awful benchmarks? The CPU bench is equal to the T61 with a 2.2Ghz C2D T7500. So the AMD is nominally clock-for-clock competitive to the C2D here. The "gaming graphics" should be compared to whatever integrated solution Intel can field currently within Centrino, seems pretty ok, but I can't comment. Battery life is disappointing, Puma was supposed to have additional power saving features wasn't it? But as the reviewer points out: early days, and again the question is "compared to Intel's performance equivalant CPU" such as the T7500.
i saw a few other benchmarks from a german website and the turion at 2,3 ghz had in some benchmarks problems against a core2duo with 1.6 ghz... thats dissappointing and i really hope this is only a driver issue...
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they really got my hopes up, when i first read the news about puma...
but these benchmarks are aweful.... i really hope they only have to fix some driver issues and the final hardware is going to be more powerfull...
What awful benchmarks? The CPU bench is equal to the T61 with a 2.2Ghz C2D T7500. So the AMD is nominally clock-for-clock competitive to the C2D here. The "gaming graphics" should be compared to whatever integrated solution Intel can field currently within Centrino, seems pretty ok, but I can't comment. Battery life is disappointing, Puma was supposed to have additional power saving features wasn't it? But as the reviewer points out: early days, and again the question is "compared to Intel's performance equivalant CPU" such as the T7500.
i saw a few other benchmarks from a german website and the turion at 2,3 ghz had in some benchmarks problems against a core2duo with 1.6 ghz...
thats dissappointing and i really hope this is only a driver issue...
Personally I think thats quite a good benchmark, what matters is how much power it consumes to get there.