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AMD Turion II M500 performance: it scores 5.7 in WEI (Windows 7)

The Windows Experience Index (WEI) is not a very informative benchmark but at the moment it is the only indication of its performance that I have found. Today I have found an HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with Windows 7 and an AMD Turion II M500 (2.2 GHz) at a mall. I have quickly looked for the system properties and the WEI: the CPU subscore was 5.7; next to it there was a dv6 laptop with an AMD Athlon II M300 (2.0 GHz): it scored 4.9.


HP Pavilion dv6z laptop with AMD Turion II processor

Some scores of Intel processors to compare (collected from the Net or from other Windows 7 laptops in the mall):

  • Intel Pentium Dual Core SU4100 (1.3 GHz): 4.0
  • Intel Pentium Dual Core T4300 (2.1 GHz): 4.9
  • Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 (2.2 GHz): 5.5
  • Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4 GHz): 6.0
  • Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 (2.8 GHz): 6.4

So it looks like the new AMD Turion II and Turion II Ultra are going to compete in performance against mainstream Core 2 Duo processors, not high-end ones, but we need more benchmarks!

Update: according to PC Magazine, the AMD Turion II M520 (2.3 GHz) scores 4746 in Cinebench R10 (multi). That’s just in between an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz (that scores 4687) and a P8600 2.4 GHz (that scores 4856) and confirms the performance level.

Update 2: from the reviews of laptops with Turion II processors, it seems that the M500 is closer to a T6600 than to a P8400 or similar.

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4 Responses to “AMD Turion II M500 performance: it scores 5.7 in WEI (Windows 7)”

  1. prankstare says:
    March 29, 2010 at 19:20

    Interesting to see how good these new AMD mobile processors (Turion II) perform. I have one and it’s amazing, together with the superb onboard HD4200 (on the RS880M chipset). :)

  2. diamondhead says:
    October 17, 2010 at 00:59

    I have a HP Pavilion dv6 2112sa with the AMD Turion II M520. In stock form my WEI processor score is 5.8 and it’s faster then my brothers Intel core i3 based Sony laptop. It truly is an amazing processor, I’m running it right now undervolted (1.1v) and overclocked (2.64 GHz)runs cool and stable, my new WIE processor score is 6.2, I can’t think of another mobile processor that can do that.

  3. diamonndhead says:
    March 10, 2011 at 18:58

    @ farzid, I used setfsb, I used the clock gen. SLG8SP626V, (this code may or may not work for you, it depends on the PLL chip installed on your mainboard), you can control the CPU voltage using AMD Overdrive, however you may want to leave your voltage at stock voltage. I can pass most any stess test at 1.1v for hours and hours, however my computer will crash within minutes of starting Y-Cruncher at 1.1v, now I just leave it at 1.2v.
    It took me weeks to figure out how to overclock my Turion II M520, and my Mobility Radeon HD 4200 GPU. I found out that everyone was tight lipped about how it’s done. Perhaps because there are so many benchmark ranking competition sites out there.
    Whatever the case is, I hope this helps you out.

    Cheers