It wasnt useful during the Zen release and it isnt now. This shows us just how much the cores have improved.Īnd yeah while CPU-Z does not show much, it is something to think about before our official benchmarks arrive.Meh.
According to rumors, the GMA core will also use the Turbo Mode regulate the clock speed.
A GeForce 9400M (ION) should still be a faster (especially as Nvidia and ATI cards have a better driver support than Intel up to now). The integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD (GMA HD) graphics card is known to be clocked up to 500-766 MHz and should be clearly faster than the old GMA 4500MHD. Therefore, the Core i5-520M is as fast as high clocked Core 2 Duo CPUs and should handle most gaming and multimedia tasks well. The performance of the i5 450M is on average faster than a Core 2 Duo T9500 and due to the Turbo Boost, single threaded applications run even better. Both are on a separate die that is still manufactured in 45nm whereas the CPU die is already manufactured in the new 32nm process. A feature of the new Core i5-450M is the integrated graphics card called GMA HD and memory controller.