AMD A6 3400 vs, the Intel i5-2430
Well, The Toshiba is quad core @ 2.3 / 1.4GHz. 4MB cache (1MB per core) & a Radeon 65xx series GPU. These tend to be pretty purdy, even my 5400 mobile GPU is quite nice. The ASUS is dual core, 4 threads per-core @2.4GHz & can turbo upto 3GHz. It even supports enhanced features (on-die AES crypto accellerator), carries 3MB cache (1.5M per core) & houses an nVidia GTX520M which are mouth watering. IMPO, i'd hit up the i5 (ASUS) - You will get far better load handling as you have more cache on this CPU as well as far better multi-threading per-core. Also, the ATI GPU (Toshiba) will most likely steal some of your RAM for the graphics. nVidia tend to ship theirs with it's own memory. Both these CPU's are rated 35W - so price-for-price, the i5 is more bang for your buck. happy hunting, Ian On Wednesday 11 January 2012 22:24:38 Tim Brocklehurst wrote: > Hi guys! > > I realise I haven't posted anything on the list for ages, and that most of > you will think that's a good thing. However, I need a little help... > > For a while now I have thought that my 2.4GHz P4 has been a little > underpowered, and was considering replacing it with a big desktop rig. > However, I now find myself reasoning thus: I am going to be doing more > mobile computing, presentations etc. A laptop is more useful for mobile > development (ie. at LUG Meets). A laptop is still going to be several > times faster than my current desktop. > > Unfortunately, I don't have limitless money. Consequently, I'm after the > best "bang for my buck", and here's the problem. Having identified two > laptops (below) which look good, and are a sensible price, how does one > choose between them when all the information available (benchmarks and > user reviews) seem to be either sketchy or very similar (and sometimes > wildly different for no adequately explored reason). > > Therefore, if anyone has either of these laptops, could you run the Byte > benchmark for me, over 1,2,3 and 4 copies? > > If not, does anyone have any general advice? > > Toshiba L750D-14F (AMD A6-3400, 6GB Ram) > http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.215-7397.aspx > > ASUS K53SC-SX307V (Intel Core i5-2430, 4GB RAM) > http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.213-9815.aspx > > Byte Unix Benchmark v5.1.3 > http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/ > > For reference, Byte records the following speed indexes for my current > machines (overall results): > Copies/Threads > 1 2 3 > 4 > TS7550 - ARM9 SBC 15.6 > Pentium 4 - 2.4GHz 447.3 > Intel Atom D525 (Server) 389.7 637.7 698.0 770.1 > > Yes, that does mean that my server is quicker than my desktop on > well-threaded tasks for about 1/3 of the power consumption (educated > guess). The TS7550 is an intentionally low-power system, so the low result > is not surprising. > > Any help would be much appreciated, > > Tim B. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
