What's the difference in layman's terms

[brainsmile]

Celeron versus Pentium

Please explain in detail. Thanks

[DaFunkyUnit]

Please explain in detail. Thanks

well, it wouldnt be in layman's terms, then would it?

:D

[hapoo]

Celeron = slower than a pentium at the same ghz

Pentium = faster than a celeron at the same ghz

:)

[Showtime]

It's not that it's necessarily faster as speed is speed. It just does a lot more at the same speed.

If data = people, a celeron would be like a compact. It can move a couple of people a any given speed.
A pentium 4 would be like a SUV. At the same speed as the compact, it can move a lot more people.

And then there's the AMD 64. That would be like a bus. It ends up moving a lot more people than the 1st 2 even though it runs at a slower speed.

-j

[DarkFury]

Celeron versus Pentium

Please explain in detail. Thanks

Generally speaking, the Celeron has the same core as the Pentium class... the main difference is that the Celeron has less L2 cache than the Pentium (thus, it takes it a little bit longer to process information since it can't store up as much data in it's buffer as the Pentium can.)

However, current Celerons share the same core as the older Pentium 4s (.13 microns) while the newer Pentiums are using a .09 micron architecture.

[bachviet]

The Celery sucks enough said. ;)

[DarkFury]

The Celery sucks enough said. ;)
Works good enough if you are on a budget...

Honestly, Celery was an OC dream... back in the day. My Celly 300A did 424 on air cooling and probably could've done more with more "exotic" cooling features. :D

[ariesjj]

Bottom line is this... the Celerons are Pentium chips that have been stripped down to appease consumers. They advertise the same speeds as the Pentiums, but only carry a fraction of the data that a normal Pentium would. The best analogy I've seen in this thread is the compact/SUV/bus scenario.

[irwin]

Bottom line is this... the Celerons are Pentium chips that have been stripped down to appease consumers. They advertise the same speeds as the Pentiums, but only carry a fraction of the data that a normal Pentium would. The only analogy I've seen in this thread is the compact/SUV/bus scenario.

[BrewMaster]

the only one is therefore the best one!

[AlpineJay]

However in the comparisons of the M chips (Pentium versus Celeron) the difference in performance between the two is significantly less than the D pairs. All I've heard on the Celeron M versus Pentium M is that the C-M lacks the power management features of the P-M, and has less L2 cache depending on which model it is (I believe only 1MB L2 instead of the 2MB found in the P-M Dothan core). I know that the C-M is derived from the Dothan core, not the Banias. My dad has been looking at a laptop for well under 1000 that's fairly mobile, and I'm probably going to make a C-M recommendation over AMD Sempron or Athlon-M.

Celeron-M by design is a lower voltage chip than either one of those guys and will therefore have more mobility. I'm more inclined to choose C-M over a more expensive model in laptops, whereas I wouldn't give Celeron D a second look at all.

[AlpineJay]

fyi: an actual benchmark of C-M vs. P-M from THG:

http://www20.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040309/index.html