Intel Begins Shipping New Intel® Atom™ Processors.

[tweakboy]

http://newsroom.intel.com/community...essors-new-features-great-battery-life-on-tap

 

[tweakboy]

Wats the difference between a ATOM CPU and a regular CPU ?

 

[imaheadcase]

You post a link to a pressrelease..then ask what its about? Thats priceless.

I knew you did not read much and just posted drivel..but come on its the first thing in press release.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Third-generation Intel Atom processor-based platform introduces several new features for low-power designs such as netbooks, retail and healthcare IT devices.
Platform’s power management features provide the potential to improve performance and battery life by 20 percent compared to previous generation.
Netbooks based on this platform offer up to 10 hours of battery life, weeks of standby and full 1080p high-definition video.
Systems using new Intel Atom processor-based platform from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba will debut in early 2012.

 

[paperwastage]

atom = lower powered processor useful for HTPC/netbooks where power consumption is a premium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom


currently have a Intel N270 in a Dell 10v netbook.... believe TDP is 2.5W, but it is indeed slow ....

 

[tweakboy]

Thanks imaheadcae and paperwastage,, thats all I wanted to know.... in laymen terms.

Atom is not for hardcore user or gamer,, its for Mobile and Tablets etc,,

 

[toyota]

tweakboy, you have been here two years and still cant figure out how to use the edit button? I guess you like making the post count look high?


Atom is crap and its really time for Intel to come up with something else.

 

[GoStumpy]

^ How-so, Toyota? Did you see the 2.5W TDP figure? Factor in the power efficiency and it's actually a very powerful chip...

Compare that to a G620T at 35W TDP (2.2ghz dual-core), and it's ridiculously efficient... Where power is not a concern (web browsing and the like), energy efficiency in mobile devices wins.

 

[Maximilian]

Wats the difference between a ATOM CPU and a regular CPU ?

I don't know, what is the difference between an ATOM CPU and a regular CPU?

*awaits punchline*

 

[paperwastage]

^ How-so, Toyota? Did you see the 2.5W TDP figure? Factor in the power efficiency and it's actually a very powerful chip...

Compare that to a G620T at 35W TDP (2.2ghz dual-core), and it's ridiculously efficient... Where power is not a concern (web browsing and the like), energy efficiency in mobile devices wins.

unfortunately, the chip might be 2.5W TDP, but the chipset sucks too much power (9W? for the initial release.... later generation chipsets seem to be better at power efficiency)

in some cases, it might still be worth it to get a sandybridge i3, undervolt/clock it (idle < 9W) plus more effective power gating, which might give it similar/better performance to an atom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom#First_Generation_Power_requirements

my Dell 10v initially gets 6 hours on a 56Whr battery = 9W/hour... first gen atom

Apple's MBP says 73Whr for 7 hours or more = 10W/hour

trying to find info about the newer gen(or last gen atom)

 

[sangyup81]

^ How-so, Toyota? Did you see the 2.5W TDP figure? Factor in the power efficiency and it's actually a very powerful chip...

Compare that to a G620T at 35W TDP (2.2ghz dual-core), and it's ridiculously efficient... Where power is not a concern (web browsing and the like), energy efficiency in mobile devices wins.

There are tests out there that compare efficiency between Atoms and regular chips. Even the Core 2 series gave more performance per system watt. I'd look for that article for you if I wasn't at work =(

Part of this might be because the Atom needs to be at full load longer for a particular task and Intel chips are really good at being power efficient when it idles which affects the total power usage.

 

[GoStumpy]

-edit-

This article? Reading it now

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-efficiency,2069.html

-edit#2-
After reading, re-affirmed what I already knew... Atoms are for specific tasks only, like a web browsing netbook/nettop, and nothing more. They're affordable, cool, and slow... It's still faster than a P4 2.5ghz

(Playing devils advocate)

What about size? Cooling? I'm amazed that my netbook doesn't get above 50C in the heat of summer running 100&#37; load....

 

[paperwastage]

What about size? Cooling? I'm amazed that my netbook doesn't get above 50C in the heat of summer running 100% load....

really? my N270 gets up to 78C on load

but of course, its in a Dell 10v which has no fan

 

[anikhtos]

well atom was never indented for hard load.
If you push the cpu at 100% what you will proove??
That buldozer is more efficient than atom?!?!?!?
The issue is what workload you can do with atom staying below 80% of cpu use. If so which system is more efficient at that task.
The question is not if atom can play crysis at 2560 with 124324+ frame rates
the question is if i use it to browse the net will it consume less than an i3 i5 machine. Thats the question. Okey maybe it will take longer to convert a video but how often you do that?!?!? and frankly if you do it every day then a solution that saves you time is more apropriate. There are cpu for the high end and cpu for the low.
For the low what it matters is what job i can do.

 

[drizek]

Wats the difference between a ATOM CPU and a regular CPU ?

Watts the difference.

 

[Bateluer]

Detailed reviews incoming when?

 

[DeathReborn]

It's only a little thing but only the 640MHz GPU versions of the new ATOM chips supports BluRay 2.0 spec. No signs of being able to overclock the 400MHz version to 640MHz or if it's extra bit enabled in the top end bin.

 

[JAG87]

Atom is crap and its really time for Intel to come up with something else.

Don't kid, it's ideal for a home file server, and paired with a semi decent GPU it's perfect for an HTPC that doesn't have to decrypt media. It has it's uses, it's not crap.

 

[dealcorn]

Don't kid, it's ideal for a home file server, and paired with a semi decent GPU it's perfect for an HTPC that doesn't have to decrypt media.

I suspect Intel could have some fun with a "Pepsi Challenge" parody. My thesis is that after a couple of beers, most folks can't tell the difference between 1080p played on an Atom D2700 vs a high end graphics card matched to a powerful CPU with an immense number of cores.

If Intel did their job right, no graphics card is necessary for media consumption.

 

[sm625]

This is a useless product line. Current celeron and pentium notebooks are on sale for $250. They have good battery life and outperform atom 2x on the cpu and 3x on the gpu. In a few months they will be upgraded to 22nm.

 

[IntelUser2000]

No signs of being able to overclock the 400MHz version to 640MHz or if it's extra bit enabled in the top end bin.

There's no reason why it can't clock that high, but the 400MHz version has a 3.5W TDP and 640MHz version has a 6.5W TDP.

Also, the lack of Bluray 2.0 support is probably due to segmentation rather than a hardware limitation. Decoding takes small GPU processing power.