Core i7 820Q vs Core i7 640M Oldschool machines testing Core i7 820Q: Processor: Intel Core i7 820Q @ 1.73GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 041WH1 (A16 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 8GB, Disk: T-FORCE 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M 1GB, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1C5, Network: Intel 82577LM + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Fedora Linux 37, Kernel: 6.1.14-200.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 43.3, Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 12.2.1 20221121, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Core i7 640M: Processor: Intel Core i7 640M @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 041WH1 (A16 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: T-FORCE 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M 1GB, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1C5, Network: Intel 82577LM + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Fedora Linux 37, Kernel: 6.2.12-200.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 43.4, Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 12.2.1 20221121, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Pentium M 1.7: Processor: Intel Pentium M 1700MHz @ 1.70GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: IBM 2373GGU (1RETDOWW 3.20 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82855PM I/O + ICH4-M, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 128GB Timetec 35TTM8SS, Graphics: ATI RV350 128MB, Audio: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM, Network: Intel 82540EP + Intel PRO/Wireless OS: Debian 11, Kernel: 5.10.0-21-686 (i686), Display Server: X Server 1.20.11, Vulkan: 1.0.2, Compiler: GCC 10.2.1 20210110, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1400x1050 Core2Duo T7200: Processor: Intel Core 2 T7200 @ 1.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 8744J2F (7IET38WW 1.19 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS + ICH7-M, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: T-FORCE 256GB, Graphics: ATI RV530 256MB, Audio: Analog Devices AD1981, Network: Intel 82573L + Intel PRO/Wireless OS: Debian 12, Kernel: 6.1.0-12-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 43.6, Display Server: X Server 1.21.1.7, Compiler: GCC 12.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 7-Zip Compression 22.01 Test: Compression Rating MIPS > Higher Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 12782 |======================================================= Core i7 640M ... 9230 |======================================== Pentium M 1.7 .. 1472 |====== Core2Duo T7200 . 2461 |=========== 7-Zip Compression 22.01 Test: Decompression Rating MIPS > Higher Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 10928 |======================================================= Core i7 640M ... 8659 |============================================ Pentium M 1.7 .. 1450 |======= Core2Duo T7200 . 2074 |========== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.4 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 53.78 |=========== Core i7 640M ... 47.43 |========== Pentium M 1.7 .. 264.98 |====================================================== Core2Duo T7200 . 229.61 |=============================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 64.37 |======================================================= Core i7 640M ... 50.66 |=========================================== Pentium M 1.7 .. 50.54 |=========================================== Core2Duo T7200 . 57.57 |================================================= PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 2700 |========================= Core i7 640M ... 2000 |================== Pentium M 1.7 .. 5946 |======================================================= Core2Duo T7200 . 6068 |======================================================== RAR Compression 6.0.2 Linux Source Tree Archiving To RAR Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 164.61 |================== Core i7 640M ... 137.06 |=============== Core2Duo T7200 . 488.54 |====================================================== Sample Pi Program Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 18.66 |========== Core i7 640M ... 16.10 |========= Pentium M 1.7 .. 100.54 |====================================================== Core2Duo T7200 . 63.95 |================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 87.56 |===== Core i7 640M ... 108.21 |====== Pentium M 1.7 .. 1029.41 |===================================================== Core2Duo T7200 . 618.46 |================================ Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 27.38 |==================== Core i7 640M ... 23.29 |================= Pentium M 1.7 .. 63.19 |============================================== Core2Duo T7200 . 76.33 |======================================================= Sysbench 1.0.20 Test: RAM / Memory MiB/sec > Higher Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 11147.96 |==================================================== Core i7 640M ... 11131.98 |==================================================== Pentium M 1.7 .. 192.20 |= Core2Duo T7200 . 219.86 |= Sysbench 1.0.20 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 3306.57 |===================================================== Core i7 640M ... 2540.16 |========================================= Pentium M 1.7 .. 276.16 |==== Core2Duo T7200 . 417.72 |======= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.41 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 84.73 |=========== Core i7 640M ... 98.49 |============= Pentium M 1.7 .. 406.70 |====================================================== Core2Duo T7200 . 300.53 |======================================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.5 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i7 820Q ... 262.87 |======== Core i7 640M ... 358.75 |=========== Pentium M 1.7 .. 1731.01 |===================================================== Core2Duo T7200 . 1277.03 |=======================================