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VIA Nano Bests Intel Atom In Netbook Benchmarks

Posted by kdawson on from the still-too-slow dept.

Glib Piglet writes "ZDNet UK has a whole set of benchmarks comparing a 1.8 GHz Nano in VIA's Epia SN motherboard and a 1.6 GHz Atom in Intel's 'Little Falls' D945GCFL mobo. It's not good news for Chipzilla: 'As far as memory performance is concerned, the Nano is clearly superior in every test' and 'The VIA Nano emerges as the better processor for internet tasks. While the Atom needs 132.8 seconds to display simple HTML pages, the Nano does it in 70.1 seconds.' The Nano even outperforms Nehalem on one test. It's not all a win for VIA, though. The benchmark concludes that in some ways all netbooks, underpowered as they are, remain in the IT stone ages."

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  1. Re:All but the important test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...50% more? since when? Sure, the Nano may use more power, but it's nowhere near 50% more. 60.1*1.5 is 90.15, and x2 it's 120.2. The Nano tops out at 77.5. Making up bullshit is not "interesting" or "insightful".

  2. Re:Is that really a win? by afidel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not A HTML page, HTML pages . i-bench is a browser torture test discontinued in 2003 and the HTML dates back to 2001 so it's not too relevant to today's web where CSS and DOM dominate, not table based layouts.

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  3. Re:First Post by electrosoccertux · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't believe you.

    While the Atom needs 132.8 seconds to display simple HTML pages, the Nano does it in 70.1 seconds.

    With those speeds, why do they call these things "netbooks?" :)

    Very large web page. 17 seconds on an e5200 (That's a 2.5Ghz Core2Duo).

    I had a feeling the second I learned the Atom was an In-Order processor that it was going to suck. Sure enough, it feels rather sluggish. Getting a dual core + dual threaded Atom might be better.

    VIA's documentation is a nightmare to trudge through. Their hardware is usually great, but designing a product around it tends to be very difficult. With Intel, OTOH, we usually have no trouble getting a hold of an engineer if we have questions. Poor VIA...we'd love to use their chip but their support just isn't dependable when we have deadlines to meet.

    I hope the netbook crowd (Acer esp) can muscle some legit documentation from them-- I'd take the Nano over the Atom any day.

  4. Re:132 seconds to display simple HTML page? by Atti+K. · · Score: 4, Informative
    The benchmark was obviously rendering lots of simple HTML pages, not just one.

    "While the Atom needs 132.8 seconds to display simple HTML pages, the Nano does it in 70.1 seconds."

    Whoosh?

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