laptop processor puzzle

[legios]

I thought I had Intel's processor naming convention down, but now I have this problem. My wife's T6600 processor is out-benchmarking (just processor stuff) my T8300.

Both are 45nm Peryn chips and here are the specs

T6600: 2.2 GHz, 800 Mhz FSB, 2Mb L2 cache
T8300: 2.4 GHz, 800 Mhz FSB, 3Mb L2 cache

Why would the T6600 be faster? I checked the web, and indeed the T6600 is supposed to be faster.

Anyone have a clue of what is going on?

 

[Urwumpe]

Did you check the CPUs on comparable chipsets?

What I notice:

"Note that the models T8100, T8300, T9300, T9500 are Penryn processors designed for Santa Rosa Refresh platforms with maximum FSB of 800 MHz, whereas the rest of the Penryn processors are designed for Montevina platforms that can go up to maximum FSB of 1066 MHz."

 

[Eccentrus]

the FSB for intel's old Core series (included Core2) is that it's limited by its low bandwith FSB, while Nehalem and later, adopt the system that AMD had used all this years.