AnandTech reviews Yonah

AnandTech today published a , the most likely candidate for Apple's new line of Intel-based PowerBooks to be released next year. The chips run surprisingly cool, and are said to be equal to, if not slightly slower than an Athlon 64 X2 running at the same clock speed without an on-die memory controller. The Yonah and Athlon 64 X2 systems consume relatively similar power at idle, however Yonah uses only slightly more power under full load. A 2GHz Yonah under 100 percent load consumes less power than an Athlon 64 X2 3800-plus that is idling, according to the review. Intel has the advantage of using a much lower power 65nm process, and Yonah will be running at very similar frequencies to what Dothan is running at today, which means users won't be giving up single threaded performance in favor of multi-threaded performance. [updated link]

by MacNN Staff