Pentium M & DFI 855GME-MGF
by Marc Prieur
Published on January 21, 2005
Mathematica 5
The following tests are scientific calculation programs, starting with Mathematica 5 of Wolfram Research. Here, we used the test suite developed by Stefan Steinhaus.
The Pentium M speed is excellent and at 2 GHz is even ahead of the fastest P4. The A64 are more comfortable with this test and the Pentium M performance is comparable to the 3500+ S939 and 3200+ S754. After overclocking the Pentium M reaches the same performance level of the Athlon 64 FX-55, and is even faster at 2.5 GHz.
WinRAR 3.3
This test is the compression of a 535 MB file to RAR format in "best rate" via WinRAR 3.3. This time the Pentium M isn’t at ease with this test, the fact that it works with DDR-333 is related to this result. At 2 GHz it barely bests the Athlon XP 3200+. After overclocking (FSB and memory speed improvement) results are better and close to a P4 3.2 GHz or an Athlon 64 3200+
