Posts tagged atom
1.8GHz Atom just around the corner, DDR3 support on the way!
Dec 15th
According to Fudzilla, Intel will begin full-scale production of the new Atom N470 in January – which means the 1.8GHz CPUs should start arriving in netbooks some time in Q1 2010. Their post also notes the the 1.6GHz N40 is already being pushed out by Intel’s factories and should surface even sooner.
One other development worth noting is that Intel is ready to make the move to DDR3 memory on the Atom and will be adding it to the Pine Trail platform some time in 2010.
If you want the deliciously speedy ram now, of course, you can always pick up an HP Mini 311. the XP version
via Liliputing
Ion, Dual Core Atom with Ion, and CULV go head-to-head
Dec 11th
Over at Liliputing, my good friend Brad Linder has posted some nice benchmarks he compiled using an HP Mini 311, Asus UL20A, and Asrock Ion 330 nettop. The results are definitely interesting, especially when you consider that the Asrock is using similar innards to what the Asus 1201N is packing.
As expected, the Ion excels at 3D tasks – and it’s also a champ at running encoding tasks where the application is smart enough to leverage NVidia’s CUDA technology. Near the end of his post, Brad charts the difference CUDA makes on MediaCoder results – the task completed more than four times faster on the HP Mini 311.
Brad’s results also illustrate what we already knew about the Atom: a single-core version is just not able to provide anywhere near the processing muscle of Intel’s other CPUs.
While the HP was demolished in CPU tests, its solid 3D scores show that it’s still a solid choice for netbook gaming. Head over to Liliputing to see the full results!
Intel’s Cedarview could double 3DMark scores in 2011
Dec 10th
With Pine Trail just around the corner, Fudzilla turned their eyes toward the future today – waxing poetic about Intel’s next bit thing: Cedarview.
Due in 2011, Cedarview Atom CPUs will step up (or is it down?) to a 32nm process. They’ll also, of course, bring DDR3 support. Fudzilla believe the new chips will easily be able to handle 1080P HD video – which I think we’d all expect. Heck, over the next year I think we’re all going to start expecting HD playback to be silky-smooth regardless of which CPU a netbook is packing.
Will that translate to better gaming graphics scores? Frankly, I’m getting tired of Intel chips that can only manage an Experience Index of 3 for 3D. Let’s hope the start of the new decade – and their upcoming chips – signal the beginning of a new era for Intel.
One where crap graphics performance just isn’t acceptable.