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New Performance Results for Nano and Atom
One of the most interesting things we saw at the combined VIA/NVIDIA press conference was updated and more detailed performance information comparing VIA's Nano processor and platform to the Intel Atom platform. We had some initial performance numbers on display when Nano was initially released but VIA shared some new scores that we are likely able to relate to.
Source: VIA Technologies
Source: VIA Technologies
The fact that these are manufacturer provided benchmarks puts a bit of a damper on them, but they are extremely interesting to see and analyze none the less. We don't have actual scores (probably because they would be so low compared to regular processors we are used to testing) but instead see a relative number that tells us how much faster the Nano is compared to the Atom. In PCMark Vantage the results range from 13% to 52% depending on the actual test suite being run but the overall score is 22% faster.
The next graph has some SiSoft Sandra scores, 3DMark06 and SuperPI results. In Sandra the Nano has a lead in all the results provided but has the largest performance advantage in the SiSoft Multimedia FP score - this is good for VIA as their floating point performance on the C7 and previous generation of CPUs was pretty poor. SuperPI sees a HUGE performance leap for VIA's new part compared to Intel's Atom. |
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