Performance
To measure the performance of the Atom, pending more complete testing, we used an entry-level processor, Intel’s Pentium E2160. We reduced the E2160’s speed from 1.80 GHz to 1.60 GHz (the same as the Atom) and tested it on a motherboard similar to that provided with the Atom: i945G chipset, ICH7 and one 1 GB of DDR2 memory.
As you can see, the entry-level Pentium E2160 is far and away the best performer, even with its 1 MB of L2 cache and slow FSB. On the Cinebench test (higher is better), the single core Atom’s HyperThreading helped: compared to the single thread tests on each of the CPUs, the two thread test ran 1.53x faster with the Atom and 1.86x faster with the dual core Pentium E2160.
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Well that was kinda expected. We were told the Atom would perform around about the same as a 900mhz Pentium 3.
What happened to the power savings comparison?
what a pointless waste of time?
Surely this chip is designed to compete with low power chips... so why not compare it to low power chips? maybe the VIA competition? actually show people power draw etc...
I also find it amusing that the northbridge on the board seemed to need more cooling than the processor? which would suggest it gives out more heat... in which case maybe a better replacement should be available>?
I concur with gow87. What is the point of having a review on the Intel Atom if you don't compare it with low-powered CPUs? The Intel Atom was designed for UMPCs, Netbooks, and Ultraportables. Where's the emphasis on power consumption? Comparing it to an "underclocked" dual-core CPU isn't even a very good comparison.
What we should be getting is real-life application performance, and practical applications of the Atom's capabilities.