Toshiba A505D-S6987: A Look at Turion II Ultra M600 Performance
by Dustin Sklavos on June 23, 2010 10:57 PM ESTToshiba A505D-S6987 General Performance
Testing on the Toshiba A505D used our usual suspects. We expect the Turion II to perform well; maybe not spectacularly but certainly respectably for a budget-conscious mainstream notebook. This is also the fastest AMD mobile processor we've tested yet, so we're eager to see how it works out. Here's a refresh of the configuration of our review unit:
Toshiba A505D-S6987 Test System | |
Processor |
AMD Turion II Ultra M600 (2x2.4GHz, 45nm, 2MB L2, 35W) |
Chipset | AMD RS880M Northbridge, AMD SB750 Southbridge |
Memory | 2x2GB DDR2-800 (Max 2x4GB) |
Graphics |
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 (40 Stream Processors, 500MHz Core, Integrated) |
Display | 16" LED Glossy 16:9 720p (1366x768) |
Hard Drive(s) | Toshiba 500GB 5400 RPM Hard Disk |
Optical Drive | Slot-loading DVD+/-RW Combo Drive with LabelFlash |
Battery | 6-Cell, 12V, 44Wh battery |
Operating System | Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit |
Pricing | $654 Online |
For our basic synthetic benchmarks we're using PCMark05 and PCMark Vantage to get a feel for how the Turion II Ultra M600 stacks up.
More or less falling in line with our expectations, the Turion II Ultra doesn't get murdered by comparable Core 2 Duo based machines, but it also can't really hang with Core i3/i5 processors either. Still, performance is certainly respectable, easily beating netbooks and CULV systems and showing healthy gains on the other AMD processors.
The 2.4 GHz Turion II Ultra puts in a very healthy performance in our other benchmarks, achieving parity with and oftentimes edging out the competing Core 2 Duo chips. The Core i3/i5 processors are in another performance class entirely, but the Turion II's showing here augurs well for the tri-core and quad-core AMD mobile processors that are now starting to ship.
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Penti - Thursday, June 24, 2010 - link
$500 USD might be a good mark for them for a P520 AMD laptop with 4GB ram, HDMI, BT and integrated graphics. For 600-680 you will get a Core i3 or even an i5 laptop on sales with integrated graphics. Add 175 for HD5650 and you'd get a very competitive low/mid gaming laptop. They would at least be able to sell chips then.