GamePC: Dothan Arrives With A New Nametag : Intel’s Pentium-M 735
Omega65
Philadelphia, Pa
GamePC reviews the Dothan 1.7ghz
Also thrown into the mix are P4 3.2C, Athlon 2800+ (1.8ghz) and a Pentium M 1.3ghz.
Also thrown into the mix are P4 3.2C, Athlon 2800+ (1.8ghz) and a Pentium M 1.3ghz.
Testing with a new notebook processor is quite difficult, as every notebook platform has different components which are nearly impossible to replicate with a desktop configuration. The ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics processor in our Dothan notebook is based on a 4x1 GPU architecture, the same as the Radeon 9600 Pro/XT graphics processors. The chip runs at 400 MHz GPU / 400 MHz DDR. Using ATITool, we were able to replicate the clock speeds of a Mobility 9700 128MB with a desktop Radeon 9600XT running at custom clock rates. This helps us give even gaming performance numbers between the mobile and desktop platforms.
Source: GamePCWhat we see is that the Dothan P-M 1.7 GHz handles itself quite well in terms of gaming, giving performance on par with its higher clocked brethren. While we’re assuredly seeing some graphics bottlenecks here due to the limits of the Mobility Radeon 9700 architecture, be assured that the Dothan can be a very nice gaming chip.
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We have a feeling that a 2.0 GHz Pentium-M CPU could compete quite well in the desktop market against high-end Pentium 4 and Athlon64 processors. On a clock for clock basis, the Dothan core appears to be the most efficient on the market, in terms of performance and consumption. After seeing this chip in action, it's not surprising that Intel is considering chaining multiple Dothan cores together for a high-performance, low-power desktop processor.
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