Intel Santa Rosa Preview: Centrino V Evolves
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 10, 2007 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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General Performance - SYSMark 2007:
After years of waiting we can finally move away from SYSMark 2004 as BAPCo has just released SYSMark 2007, its latest benchmark suite that boasts full Vista compatibility (only 32-bit however). As always, SYSMark is divided into a number of individual performance categories, which together provide an overall performance score for the system.
Remember that the Santa Rosa platform has a CPU that runs at a slightly higher clock speed (2.87% faster), so some of the performance advantage we're seeing here is simply due to the higher clock speed. Even if you don't take that into account, the new platform offers at best a less than 4% advantage over its predecessor. As we mentioned earlier, unlike previous Centrino updates, Santa Rosa isn't about an increase in CPU performance.
General Performance - WorldBench 6 Beta 2:
The latest version of WorldBench also boasts Vista support with a much needed update to the benchmark's application suite.
We see the same sort of performance advantage here as we did in SYSMark 2007, there's a slight edge to Santa Rosa but nothing tremendous as you'd expect.
After years of waiting we can finally move away from SYSMark 2004 as BAPCo has just released SYSMark 2007, its latest benchmark suite that boasts full Vista compatibility (only 32-bit however). As always, SYSMark is divided into a number of individual performance categories, which together provide an overall performance score for the system.
Remember that the Santa Rosa platform has a CPU that runs at a slightly higher clock speed (2.87% faster), so some of the performance advantage we're seeing here is simply due to the higher clock speed. Even if you don't take that into account, the new platform offers at best a less than 4% advantage over its predecessor. As we mentioned earlier, unlike previous Centrino updates, Santa Rosa isn't about an increase in CPU performance.
General Performance - WorldBench 6 Beta 2:
The latest version of WorldBench also boasts Vista support with a much needed update to the benchmark's application suite.
We see the same sort of performance advantage here as we did in SYSMark 2007, there's a slight edge to Santa Rosa but nothing tremendous as you'd expect.
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avaughan - Thursday, May 10, 2007 - link
I would have thought that the real benefit from Robson would have been the power savings from the ability for the OS to write todisk/save something/do a small amount of swapping without needing to spin up the hard disk.
Regarding performance expectations, what's the read/write throughput on the flash, and is this a fast hard disk? I would expect
reading/writing a large contiguous file to/from a fast hard to be faster than reading/writing to cheap (= slow) flash.
If Vista can store part of the data on the hard disk, and the rest on flash, and read/write both chunks simultaneously
or the flash has throughput as fast/faster as the hard disk then I would hope to see performance benefits.
smn198 - Thursday, May 10, 2007 - link
Maybe it was an interesting article but I cannot read the begining of each line as there are Intel vPro dogs in the way.