VIA's Dual Core Nano & VN1000 Chipset Previewed
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 15, 2010 12:26 PM ESTPower Consumption
The DC Nano platform I tested is built on an old 65nm manufacturing process at TSMC. As a result, power consumption isn't that great. Also note that VIA doesn't do any power gating, so idle power ends up being very similar to Clarkdale:
While the DC Nano platform may have the performance advantage, it requires at least twice the power of Intel's Pine Trail Atom platform. The move to 40nm will definitely help things, but I doubt we'll see Atom levels of power consumption from the final DC Nano platform.
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East17 - Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - link
AMD delivered and even exceeded their promises with Zacate. It's a very good solution that mops the floor with Atom and sometimes, especially when IGP is involved, mops the floor even with Core i3 that is a CPU much more expensive with an expensive platform. What's amazing is that Zacate's best competitor is not Intel Atom but VIA's Nano & VN1000 chipset. Congratulations to both AMD and VIA. I think they should really take over the "power efficient market" and just banish INTEL with its expensive, low quality and low performance part.chukked - Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - link
can anyone please tell me why can not nvidia take over via and make their own x86 cpu? as via has right to make x86 cpu.UrQuan3 - Friday, November 19, 2010 - link
I want to thank Anand for testing video playback on the platform. It's entirely too often that only encoding is tested. If I have a htpc, playback is all I really care about. If Via gets that working, I'll be buying one. If not (like the last 4 Via chipsets) it's a no go. In my experience, the Nano can only handle 720p playback in software.General.TerroR! - Saturday, November 20, 2010 - link
Things would have a bit more interesting, if there was an inclusion of the similarly clocked Atom D525 @ 1.8 GHz, in all the tests.