On Saturday 14 January 2012 10:09:44 timb@??? wrote:
> > AMD A6 3400 vs, the Intel i5-2430
> >
> >
> > Well, The Toshiba is quad core @ 2.3 / 1.4GHz. 4MB cache (1MB per core) &
> > a
> > Radeon 65xx series GPU. These tend to be pretty purdy, even my 5400
> > mobile GPU
> > is quite nice.
> >
> > The ASUS is dual core, 4 threads per-core @2.4GHz & can turbo upto 3GHz.
> > It
> > even supports enhanced features (on-die AES crypto accellerator), carries
> > 3MB
> > cache (1.5M per core) & houses an nVidia GTX520M which are mouth
> > watering.
> >
> > IMPO, i'd hit up the i5 (ASUS) - You will get far better load handling as
> > you
> > have more cache on this CPU as well as far better multi-threading
> > per-core.
> > Also, the ATI GPU (Toshiba) will most likely steal some of your RAM for
> > the
> > graphics. nVidia tend to ship theirs with it's own memory.
> >
> > Both these CPU's are rated 35W - so price-for-price, the i5 is more bang
> > for
> > your buck.
> >
> >
> > happy hunting,
> >
> > Ian
>
> Yes, on further inspection it (www.tomshardware.com has a benchmark of
> some very similar kit) that the choice is between graphics and maths
> capability. The greater CPU performance of the i5 is very tempting, and
> the graphics capability is probably sufficient for what I want to do. I
> think I've swung to the i5 now, but the Toshiba I linked to doesn't have
> VGA out, so it'll have to be that CPU in a different box.
>
> More searching required, I think.
>
> Tim B.
>
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I'm an AMD lover personally. But in this case, that i5 is by far better. If it
was an i3... AMD! i5 & i7's are beasts.
Both the ATI and nVidia GPU's on those would be capable of CUDA (OpenCL)
computing too, but the GTX would fold superior mathematically.
Ian
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