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Pentium D 950 vs Core Duo T2450


Description
The 950 is based on NetBurst architecture while the T2450 is based on Mobile.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 950 gets a score of 7.3 k points while the T2450 gets 11.4 k points.

Summarizing, the T2450 is 1.6 times faster than the 950. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
f64
6ec
Core
Presler
Yonah
Architecture
NetBurst
Base frecuency
3.4 GHz
2 GHz
Socket
LGA 775
micro FC-PGA 478-pin
Cores/Threads
2/2
2/2
TDP
130 W
W
Cache L1 (d+i)
16+8 kB
2x32+2x32 kB
Cache L2
4096 kB
2048 kB
Cache L3
0 kB
kB
Date
January 2006
Mean monothread perf.
8.73k points
6.49k points
Mean multithread perf.
7.34k points
11.37k points

SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
950
T2450
Test#1 (Integers)
2.36k
1.81k (x0.77)
Test#2 (FP)
3.74k
1.96k (x0.52)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1.76k
1.81k (x1.03)
Test#1 (Memory)
0.86k
0.9k (x1.05)
TOTAL
8.73k
6.49k (x0.74)

Multithread

950

T2450
Test#1 (Integers)
4.34k
3.41k (x0.79)
Test#2 (FP)
1.91k
3.89k (x2.04)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
0.75k
3.1k (x4.12)
Test#1 (Memory)
0.35k
0.97k (x2.8)
TOTAL
7.34k
11.37k (x1.55)

Performance/W
950
T2450
Test#1 (Integers)
33 points/W