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Phynaz

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You should have effectively thought twice before posting
since i said nowhere that twice the thickness will amount
to twice the mass...

You certainly implied it.

When are you getting a PC?
 

blackened23

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Wrong , BT works close to 2.4GHz in MThreaded integer tasks
according to the very link you posted , hence optimistic or
wishfull misleading arguments..

Jaguar has 25% better integer IPC.

You're comparing a 2W chip intended for tablets to a laptop/convertible chip. You will never, ever see the the A4-5000 in the same small tablet form factors as BT-T will be in. Maybe you could compare the BT-T to the actual A4-1200.

Comparing a 2W tablet SOC to a desktop or laptop chip is ridiculous. It's about how much CPU performance you can do in a tablet form factor, and the A4-5000 will not ever be in those form factors that BT-T will be in. I think the A4-5000 is a pretty good laptop/convertible chip, but to compare it to BT-T? Come on. The proper comparison to Bay Trail-T is the A4-1200 - and the BT-T has significantly faster CPU performance, easily 3 times as fast in that respect. The proper comparison for the A4-5000 is a core i7 quad core mobile chip which is a laptop and convertible chip - NOT the bay trail.

For the time being, the BT-T has the highest CPU performance applicable for that form factor and is faster than any ARM SOC. The GPU could be faster but it's an acceptable trade-off since nobody in their right freakin' mind plays crysis 3 on a 7 inch 2W tablet.
 
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Abwx

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You're comparing a 2W chip intended for tablets to a laptop/convertible chip. You will never, ever see the the A4-5000 in the same small tablet form factors as BT-T will be in. Maybe you could compare the BT-T to the actual A4-1200.

The comparison is yours since i only compared IPC ,
not the eventual use...

BT should more adequately be compared to a 4C Temash ,
the SDPs are actualy close in most usages..
 

mikk

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BT should more adequately be compared to a 4C Temash , the SDPs are actualy close in most usages..


8W Temash consumes 8-10W under full load which you won't see from a 2-2.2W SDP Bay Trail-T. 8W Temash is for entry laptops, you might compare it to Bay Trail-M which should have a more comparable power envelope.
 

monstercameron

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8W Temash consumes 8-10W under full load which you won't see from a 2-2.2W SDP Bay Trail-T. 8W Temash is for entry laptops, you might compare it to Bay Trail-M which should have a more comparable power envelope.

we havent really seen much abot z3770's platform power yet so I wouldn't be claiming anything so strongly but I do feel that the z3770 might use less power. Also we havent seen the a6-1450 in a tablet/power optimized device so also would discount temash.
 
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mikk

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we havent really seen much abot z3770's platform power yet so I wouldn't be claiming anything so strongly but I do feel that the z3770 might use less power. Also we havent seen the a6-1450 in a tablet/power optimized device so also would discount temash.


I refer to an Idle load delta not a platform power.
 

raghu78

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You're comparing a 2W chip intended for tablets to a laptop/convertible chip. You will never, ever see the the A4-5000 in the same small tablet form factors as BT-T will be in. Maybe you could compare the BT-T to the actual A4-1200.

Comparing a 2W tablet SOC to a desktop or laptop chip is ridiculous. It's about how much CPU performance you can do in a tablet form factor, and the A4-5000 will not ever be in those form factors that BT-T will be in. I think the A4-5000 is a pretty good laptop/convertible chip, but to compare it to BT-T? Come on. The proper comparison to Bay Trail-T is the A4-1200 - and the BT-T has significantly faster CPU performance, easily 3 times as fast in that respect. The proper comparison for the A4-5000 is a core i7 quad core mobile chip which is a laptop and convertible chip - NOT the bay trail.

For the time being, the BT-T has the highest CPU performance applicable for that form factor and is faster than any ARM SOC. The GPU could be faster but it's an acceptable trade-off since nobody in their right freakin' mind plays crysis 3 on a 7 inch 2W tablet.

Intel has not released official TDP numbers yet. so unless anandtech gets to run actual power benchmarks with games and demanding apps we will never know. moreover Temash's A6-1450's max TDP is 8W. thats with Prime95 + Furmark running. for normal workloads its more like 3 - 5w. We are yet to see Baytrail Z3770 benchmarked by independent third party reviewers under different scenarios. With prime95 and furmark I am betting Intel will be closer to 6- 7 w. so lets reserve comments till we see independent reviews and power measurements.
 

AtenRa

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Personally I dont expect Z3770 to be more than 3-4W TDP, and power consumption in every day apps should be up to 2W give or take. But, TDP is not the only thing that affects performance and Burst Mode.
 

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Intel has not released official TDP numbers yet. so unless anandtech gets to run actual power benchmarks with games and demanding apps we will never know. moreover Temash's A6-1450's max TDP is 8W. thats with Prime95 + Furmark running. for normal workloads its more like 3 - 5w. We are yet to see Baytrail Z3770 benchmarked by independent third party reviewers under different scenarios. With prime95 and furmark I am betting Intel will be closer to 6- 7 w. so lets reserve comments till we see independent reviews and power measurements.

TDP means nothing just like SDP means nothing. It does not indicate power consumption. It's just funny how you see AMD's real power consumption going down and intel's going up. The fact that intel's Z3770 is going into real products based on a similar thinness to the ipad mini should tell you everything that you need to know.

Temash A6-1450 is going into convertibles for a reason. It isn't fit for tablets. It is fit for convertibles. Maybe the 1200 is [fit for 7 inch thin tablets], maybe it isn't, for some mysterious reason no such products have appeared on shelves nor have they been benchmarked.
 
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Intel has not released official TDP numbers yet. so unless anandtech gets to run actual power benchmarks with games and demanding apps we will never know. moreover Temash's A6-1450's max TDP is 8W. thats with Prime95 + Furmark running. for normal workloads its more like 3 - 5w. We are yet to see Baytrail Z3770 benchmarked by independent third party reviewers under different scenarios. With prime95 and furmark I am betting Intel will be closer to 6- 7 w. so lets reserve comments till we see independent reviews and power measurements.

Doubtful that of the 11.6W delta between 10.6W maximum idle and 21.9W Prime95 + Furmark reported by notebookcheck's review of the A6-1450 - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-AMD-A6-1450-APU-Temash.92264.0.html - 3.6W or more was used by other components. aka, just because AMD claims it's an 8W TDP doesn't mean that such is true. Also note that the CPU was throttled down to 850 MHz in that fully loaded situation.

As for Baytrail-T power consumption while running a similar workload - feel free to make such wild speculations, but it's not going to change the fact that the SoC likely won't even touch 3W. HD4000 running furmark at 1.15 GHz only uses ~16W, divide that by four to account for Baytrail's smaller configuration, then in half to account for the lower frequency and you're already down to 2W (likely still an over-estimate as I'm not accounting for voltage scaling at all.) Now that's a very rough estimate, but it should be in the ballpark. Sure, 2W plus the reported 2.5W for multi-threaded cinebench would put it up to 4.5W, but that would require Intel to not reduce frequencies in order to keep total SoC power around the SDP.
 
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Doubtful that of the 11.6W delta between 10.6W maximum idle and 21.9W Prime95 + Furmark reported by notebookcheck's review of the A6-1450 - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-AMD-A6-1450-APU-Temash.92264.0.html - 3.6W or more was used by other components. aka, just because AMD claims it's an 8W TDP doesn't mean that such is true. Also note that the CPU was throttled down to 850 MHz in that fully loaded situation.

As for Baytrail-T power consumption while running a similar workload - feel free to make such wild speculations, but it's not going to change the fact that the SoC likely won't even touch 3W. HD4000 running furmark at 1.15 GHz only uses ~16W, divide that by four to account for Baytrail's smaller configuration, then in half to account for the lower frequency and you're already down to 2W (likely still an over-estimate as I'm not accounting for voltage scaling at all.) Now that's a very rough estimate, but it should be in the ballpark. Sure, 2W plus the reported 2.5W for multi-threaded cinebench would put it up to 4.5W, but that would require Intel to not reduce frequencies in order to keep total SoC power around the SDP.

the acer v5-122p is a bad example for power, temash will eat more power but how much more is yet to be seen.
evidence. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-E1-522-45004G50Mnkk-Notebook.101677.0.html

how can the a4-5000 with a 37Wh, a larger display and ~2x the tdp/higher clocks be on par with the a6-1450?
 
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What people seems to forget is that SDP (like TDP) is a selectable operating point. OEMs may configure SDP for 2.5W (PL1 value) and the SOC will not exceed it for a thermally significant period.

It may be worthwhile to talk about performance at this level, but claims that it is using 8W are silly. Based on Anand's measurements, the reference platform seemed to be set to 2.5W.
 

Shivansps

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I wonder why they used a higher TDP chip with less performance and not used the sata for msata hard disk...
We are completely sure that BT-M and BT-D only have 4EU?
 
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mikk

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Intel has not released official TDP numbers yet.


Most likely Intel won't release it. Datasheets are available and no mention of TDP, just SDP.


I wonder why they used a higher TDP chip with less performance? we are completely sure that BT-M and BT-D only have 4EU?

100% sure. TDP is not directly comparable to Bay Trail-T.
 

Shivansps

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There is quite high diference in die size for just pci-e and sata, im not so sure.


BTW, I wonder if any OEM will go for a USB3 to sata chip to offer msata storage on BT-T...
 

Khato

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the acer v5-122p is a bad example for power, temash will eat more power but how much more is yet to be seen.
evidence. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-E1-522-45004G50Mnkk-Notebook.101677.0.html

how can the a4-5000 with a 37Wh, a larger display and ~2x the tdp/higher clocks be on par with the a6-1450?

Because it's not? Their review of the A4-5000 itself using AMD reference platform - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Short-Review-AMD-A4-5000-APU-Kabini.93173.0.html - shows a 16.1W delta between idle and Prime95 + Furmark. That's quite a bit more than the 11W delta seen in that Acer review... and for some reason I doubt that AMD wouldn't have tweaked their reference platform sent out to reviewers to show their product in the best light possible.

Keep in mind that these are actual power measurements conducted by a third party. I find it amusing that the Baytrail power measurements are being called into question because they weren't conducted by a third party... and yet when third party Kabini/Temash measurements are provided that don't match with AMD's claimed TDP?
 

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Because it's not? Their review of the A4-5000 itself using AMD reference platform - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Short-Review-AMD-A4-5000-APU-Kabini.93173.0.html - shows a 16.1W delta between idle and Prime95 + Furmark. That's quite a bit more than the 11W delta seen in that Acer review... and for some reason I doubt that AMD wouldn't have tweaked their reference platform sent out to reviewers to show their product in the best light possible.

Keep in mind that these are actual power measurements conducted by a third party. I find it amusing that the Baytrail power measurements are being called into question because they weren't conducted by a third party... and yet when third party Kabini/Temash measurements are provided that don't match with AMD's claimed TDP?

dont come at me with that crap, I linked to a real product and to demonstrate how another real product seems to have a higher powerdraw when it shouldnt.
acer v5-122p vs acer e1-522.
 

Khato

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dont come at me with that crap, I linked to a real product and to demonstrate how another real product seems to have a higher powerdraw when it shouldnt.
acer v5-122p vs acer e1-522.

Why exactly shouldn't I point out logical inconsistencies? Especially since notebookcheck's review of the Acer A4-5000 shows the smallest delta between idle and load power consumption of the four A4-5000 systems that they have reviewed. (In addition to the reference system the other two - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Packard-Bell-EasyNote-LE69KB-45004G50Mnsk-Notebook.99642.0.html - and - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Toshiba-Satellite-C50D-A-10E-Notebook.100745.0.html - show delta power usages of 14W and 11.7W, respectively.)

There are a few options to explain the marked variations between the different samples. We can effectively rule out system variations seeing as how AMD's reference platform demonstrated the highest SoC power consumption under load. That leaves differences in software/firmware implementation resulting in the low samples being due to not actually running at full speed/load or huge variations in silicon quality in that some chips run at 10W TDP while others are around 15W... which is doubtful since I'd fully expect AMD to capitalize upon that rather than lumping them all into a single SKU.
 

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Why exactly shouldn't I point out logical inconsistencies? Especially since notebookcheck's review of the Acer A4-5000 shows the smallest delta between idle and load power consumption of the four A4-5000 systems that they have reviewed. (In addition to the reference system the other two - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Packard-Bell-EasyNote-LE69KB-45004G50Mnsk-Notebook.99642.0.html - and - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Toshiba-Satellite-C50D-A-10E-Notebook.100745.0.html - show delta power usages of 14W and 11.7W, respectively.)

There are a few options to explain the marked variations between the different samples. We can effectively rule out system variations seeing as how AMD's reference platform demonstrated the highest SoC power consumption under load. That leaves differences in software/firmware implementation resulting in the low samples being due to not actually running at full speed/load or huge variations in silicon quality in that some chips run at 10W TDP while others are around 15W... which is doubtful since I'd fully expect AMD to capitalize upon that rather than lumping them all into a single SKU.


ok are you agreeing or disagreeing?


Doubtful that of the 11.6W delta between 10.6W maximum idle and 21.9W Prime95 + Furmark reported by notebookcheck's review of the A6-1450 - http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-...h.92264.0.html - 3.6W or more was used by other components. aka, just because AMD claims it's an 8W TDP doesn't mean that such is true. Also note that the CPU was throttled down to 850 MHz in that fully loaded situation.
so you are telling me nothing is wrong when the throttled a6-1450 uses as much power as the non-throttled a4-5000?
 

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So intel's reference platform using 2.5W under stress is a fabrication, and AMDs reference platform is a fabrication. I like where this is going.
 

monstercameron

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So intel's reference platform using 2.5W under stress is a fabrication, and AMDs reference platform is a fabrication. I like where this is going.
I hope you are just thread crapping otherwise it is sad that you cannot read.

No where did i say that the reference laptop was a fabrication[nor the atom]. my point was to discredit the acer v5-122p as a representative for the performance of the a6-1450, so we can have a fair debate as to give and take between the atom and temash's performance/power consumption.
 

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Geekbench 3
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/27902?baseline=52725
Code:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 905S3G/906S3G/915S3G
Single Score 760 Multicore Score 1996   

intel byt_t_ffrd10 
Single Score 977  Multicore Score 2988
amd was running android
intel android 4.2.2

z3770 v. a6-1450[ http://h20386.www2.hp.com/SingaporeStore/Product.aspx?pdetail=P305213&pid=C466736& ]
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/23829?baseline=52725

very close scores!
z3770 v. tegra 4
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/9041?baseline=52725

z3770 v. s800[lg]
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/64468?baseline=52725

z3770 v. s800[sony]
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/20688?baseline=52725
 
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Khato

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so you are telling me nothing is wrong when the throttled a6-1450 uses as much power as the non-throttled a4-5000?

Such assumes that the A4-5000 in the two systems with lower delta power consumption wasn't throttling in some manner. Which wouldn't make sense as the previous section regarding temperature states that throttling was not observed in any of the cases... though there's also the marked peculiarity in that section of the CPU reporting a temperature of 61 degrees centigrade under load in all three laptops? Doesn't necessarily mean anything, it's just quite bizarre and suggests a thermal target for the cooling system at the very least.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that the variance in delta power consumption between the various Kabini/Temash devices that we have data for is downright bizarre. The reference laptop is showing 1.5x the delta power consumption of the Acer. If we assume that we could be seeing the same kind of variance with the A6-1450 and the one data point we have is the peak then the equivalent 'low' would be ~7.7W. But that's just speculation, not hard data.

Put another way, do we actually have any third party reviews that measure the expected low power consumption of Temash? Because if throwing out the notebookcheck results then far as I know we have the same amount of real-world power data for Temash as we do Baytrail - none. (Technically less data for Temash since I see no reason to ignore the figures from the preview, but I have no problem with putting them on 'equal' footing in that regard.)
 
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