A Review of the Pentium M on the Desktop - Super Pi, Unreal Tournament
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Super Pi
This is a test to see which setup can calculate one million digits of pi the quickest. Once again, the Pentium M shows its muscle. When it comes down to straight computation, the chip is wholly competitive with the Athlon64, the chip which had been wearing the crown as king of scientific and mathematical tasks. Bandwidth again seems to be a factor, but to a lesser extent than the STARS test. Simply changing that value gained two seconds alone.
Unreal Tournament 2003
In gaming, the A64 holds a slight advantage over its smaller sibling. But when you massively overclock the Sempron 3100+, that advantage disappears, and then some. The botmatch test is obviously more CPU dependant, having to calculate AI and the physics for more bots. The flyby test gains less from the change in CPU capabilities. The Pentium M though is right in the middle of things again, comparing to the gaming master known as the Athlon64. Right now though, you can buy much faster A64s than the one I tested here running at 1.8GHz. If you are willing to do some work with overclocking, that gap can be closed regardless of what Intel puts up for sale.
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