Core Duo Laptop CPUs...or Desktop?

Conclusions Based on what we've seen, one can't help but conclude the Core Duo's performance per watt is unmatched in the world of PC processors. The Core Duo is obviously the best mobile CPU on the market, more than doubling the peak performance of the Pentium M while operating in the same power envelope. What's more shocking is the fact that the Core Duo T2600's outright performance is easily superior to Intel's supposed flagship desktop processor, the Pentium Extreme Edition 965.

That's one way to read the report, I guess. Another way might be that you can put AMD Athlon FX 57, FX60 and X2 4800+ in a laptop, all of which blow the doors off of the Core Duo from a speed point of view. The lower power consumption levelsof the core duo were impressive, I have to say. Comparing Core Duo against traditional laptop chips is not really fair, since the CD will be built into more than just laptops.

Also, looking through the charts, out of 42 tests, there were only 2 where the Core Duo was on top, and 1 where it was on the bottom. Most of the rest of the game belonged to AMD.

Here are some other quotes from the same article:

We tried overclocking the Core Duo, but when the system wouldn't boot our stock 2.16GHz processor at 2.3GHz, we were left with no real tweaking options to help resolve the problem.

Just like past years, I understand Intel has the next generation of "Core Duos" on track for year end delivery.

Progress is continuous.

Bo

"In the following, the difference between the overclocked Intel T2600 and AMD FX-60 is less than 1%: Sisoft Sandra 2006 CPU Arithmetic and CPU Multimedia Benchmarks. And in several others the difference is less than 5%."

What the hacker-gamer types are seeing is that the CoreDuo is anything but a shrinking violet. It is easy to expect that Intel will rapidly increase the clock rate of the CoreDuo as their reliability-consistency goes up with the 65nm process.