Which processor is faster at playing game (Rainbox 6) - Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 or Pentium Dual Core T2130?

Question

T5500 65 nm 2MB L2 1.66 GHz 667 MHz
T2130 65 nm 1MB L2 1.86 GHz 533 MHz
I find it difficult to compare the true speed of processors nowaday, can anyone suggest an easy way to do it?

Answer 1

The T2130 is actually an Intel Core Duo made for laptops.
A Dual-Core is just a generic term to mean 2 processors running on the same chip. But Core Duo's, Core 2 Duo's, Pentium D's, Dual Core's are all essentially 2 processors running on the same chip. Core Duo's and Core 2 Duo's are an Intel brand that were designed more effeciently than the others mentioned.

The difference between a Core 2 Duo and Core Duo is that the Core 2 Duo is made for desktops as well as laptops while the Core Duo is only for laptops. The Core 2 Duo also has design improvements for increased effeciency that enables it to process more instructions and run even cooler than a Core Duo. So Core 2 Duo's run a little bit faster than a Core Duo, but the difference in performance according to benchmarks is minimal.

The T2130 has a faster clock speed which should make up the performance difference between the Core Duo and Core 2 Duo. The 533mhz vs 667Mhz FSB is not going to improve performance as much as one might think. According to benchmarks you might get up to a 2% performance boost. The 2mb cache will probably yield no more than 5% performance gain over a 1mb cache according to some benchmarks i looked at.

The T5500 should be slightly faster probably within 10% faster than the T2130, but will you see a noticable difference for gaming? Probably not. The benchmark that compared Core Duo performance with Core 2 Duo performance for gaming showed no difference in fps at all. It's only when you max out the CPU completely will you see a difference, and either CPU's have plenty of CPU power to handle your game.
I would go with the cheaper CPU, and invest more money on a good video card. Get 2 gigs of ram and disable the paging file, and you will see a performance boost from that as well.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

You will find both CPU's located there, scroll down to the bottom of that list and you will find both the T5500 and the T2130. I am not suprised to see that the benchmark of the T2130 there shows it faster than the T5500 with the T2130 at 863 marks and the T5500 at 828 marks. Those scores were based on user submissions from passmarks CPU benchmarking program and they are not supposed to be overclocked.

starmicro.net is a good place to find cheap cpu's
newegg.com is another good place

don't buy from ebay. you're going to want some kind of warranty, and ebay sellers are very difficult to work with if you receive a DOA, especially the power sellers.


EDIT:

A single-core variant, code-named Yonah-1024, was released as the Celeron (branded) M 400 series CPUs. It was largely identical to the Core Solo branded Yonah, except that it only had half the L2 cache and did not support SpeedStep.

Another dual-core variant of the Core Duo branded Yonah was released as the Intel Pentium Dual-Core branded T2060, T2080, and T2130 mobile CPUs.

T2130 is core duo NOT core 2 duo.

Mr Karz has his facts backwards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core

Answer 2

The T5500.

I'll Explain.

An Intel Pentium Dual Core Is One Core, Split Into Two.

And An Intel Core 2 Duo Is 2 Single Cores.

So The Core 2 Duo is Always Better!

Answer 3

T5500 65 nm 2MB L2 1.66 GHz 667 MHz

Answer 4

They are both Core2 Duo (Conroe) technology. T2130 would be faster in most business apps, internet, Super Pi, etc. T5500 would excel in heavy applications and some games that take advantage of the larger L2 cache.

Other posters have mistaken the new mPentium T2130 as Core Duo (Yonah2). Core Duo processors are the T2300, T2400, T2500, T2600, T2700. The new mPentiums (Conroe) are T2060, T2080 and T2130.

Answer 5

yes intel's new processor naming system is stupid. i don't pay attention to it. i only pay attention to clock speed, cache, and fsb. i would get the core2duo. make sure u have an equally powerful graphics card, like a nvidia 8000 series graphics card.

Answer 6

T5500

Download benchmarking software and test it

Answer 7

both are okay
what you need is a hyper video card :P

JKC@REC