Atom vs Nano: could do better
By admin at 1 August, 2008, 10:50 am
PC Watch published a comparative performance of CPUs VIA Nano L2100 (1.8-GHz TDP of 25W) and Intel Atom 230 (1.6 GHz-4W of TDP) chipsets supported by reference of their respective manufacturers, other components are common to both platforms test. On the whole, the Nano is clearly more efficient than its rival and even in applications optimized for HyperThreading and thus exploit the full potential of Intel CPU.
Things, however, are more complex if we should separate these two competing solutions, taking into account their consumption. On the one hand the couple Nano L2100 + CN896 requires 58W at full load while the Atom 230 associated with the 945GC is “happy” 43W. In the first case, another model would probably have helped to do better and this year too s sacrifice performance (it also surprised that the VX800U and 3.5 W has not been accepted). In the second, a more appropriate chipset (ie designed specifically for the Atom and not for the Pentium 4) would have to descend much lower. In short, the potential seems to be there, but one side to the other, there is still some efforts to provide for proposing coherent platforms …
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