Performance
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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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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>?
What we should be getting is real-life application performance, and practical applications of the Atom's capabilities.