Head to Head comparison: AMD Puma vs Intel Montevina on Blu-Ray playback and Iron Man video game

http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2008/08/599_desktop_duel_how_can_an_amd_triplecor...

Moorhead compares two $599 PCs playing a Blu-Ray movie. One with an AMD Phenom triple-core and the other with an Intel Quad chip, and both with an integrated graphic chip. The Intel system had a much higher CPU utilisation level. And when Moorhead launched an encoding task, the Intel machine peaked at 100% utilisation, affecting the movie playback, where the AMD machine showed a 50% CPU utilisation.

"One thing I want to point to is the low CPU utilisation. [On the AMD desktop it was 10-30% and about 70% on the Intel PC]. One of the reasons why this is important on the desktop because once you get a CPU utilisation above a certain threshold, your fan kicks-in, the systems starts to get a lot hotter and probably more importantly is that you're going need that extra CPU space if your background tasks kicks-in as you are watching a movie. This could be Windows Defender. It could be a virus protection. And in this example, we are kicking-on an iTunes audio encode, from a WAV file to AAC... The AMD system's utilisation is a bit higher and Intel's reached 100%... And you'll see some frames dropping".

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• amd
• idf
• moorhead
• puma
• uberpulse
• montevina
• intel
• blu-ray
• ironman
• gaming

[allofyousuckla]

@ninjaangel87654 idiot...and retard.

[vitaobatera]

@ninjaangel87654 8/21/2008 .... WATCH retard

[ninjaangel87654]

ITS A CENTRINO GET A I5 NOOBS!

[west5ive]

Amd FTW!!!

[GoldenbanjoDJ]

pirates of the..... how did he pronounce it??? lol

[tubehax]

Sims more popular than WoW ? sounds like fail on this dude's part.

[SteelCity1981]

And now that Intel pulled the plug on larrabee, they are going to have to rely on Nvidia to supply them with a quality IGP unit.

[johnmonk66]

wow, that is a hell of a difference

[abaj006]

this video is so true, my mate got a centrino 2 duo thing, and it has trouble playing HD video with slow frame rates and sucky textures... Its funny because his upgrade is slower than his previous platform with core duo and ATI HD 2300.. LOL

[jpross123]

intel, better perfromance, not cheap. (cheap as in the product)