Thanks, but my question was about Core Duo Mobile, not Core 2 Duo.
(Notice the "mobile" and the absence of the "2"). That would be the
yonah, not allendale or conroe. But thanks anyway.
You'll likely need to find a couple articles, that happen to use the
same benchmark. I doubt those processors would be compared head to
head in the same review. Cure Duo T2500 2GHz does the Photoshop 7.0.1
benchmark in 319 seconds.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2648&p=8
Worldbench 5 Photoshop 7.0.1 subsection results are also plotted here.
The slowest processor is a P4 model 530 at the bottom of the graph, at
439 seconds. That 530 might have 1MB cache. The 630 above it, at
395 seconds execution time, has 2MB cache. You quoted a 2.8Ghz P4,
and that could have 512KB or 1MB of cache, depending on exactly
which 2.8GHz processor it is. I would say, at the very least, the
T2600 is 439/319 or 1.37x faster, on that particular memory intensive
kind of benchmark.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2382&p=5
In terms of the quality of the experience, execution speed is only
one aspect. Sometimes, a single core without Hyperthreading, tends
to have the odd glitch or delay in the desktop. While the T2600 is
faster, it might not be quite as smooth, when it comes to operation
of the desktop. I've noticed this when comparing my AthlonXP machine
to my P4 with Hyperthreading machine. The P4 is smoother. Presumably
this is an artifact of Windows design, and not something you see
everywhere.
Paul