VIA C7-M Processor
By Gabriel Torres on September 12, 2005 Page 5 of 6

Comparison

On Figure 12 you can see a power consumption comparison between C7-M, Pentium M and Celeron M. According to this data, at 1.5 GHz, VIA C7-M dissipates 12 W, while Pentium M dissipates 21 W and Celeron M dissipates 24.5 W. At 1.8 GHz, C7-M dissipates 15 W while Pentium M dissipates 27 W.

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Figure 12: Power consumption comparison between C7-M and Pentium M and Celeron M.

As for performance, VIA published the data shown on Figure 13, making a “performance/watt” comparison. Really interesting, but… beware! This data talks about a ratio, not about absolute values…

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Figure 14: Performance/watt comparison.

A final comparison table can be seen on Figure 15.

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Figure 15: Comparison table between C7-M, Pentium M and Celeron M.


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