Intel's Atom Processor Compared to 68 CPUs in Bench
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 20, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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A few months ago I launched something we quickly titled "Bench". The idea behind AnandTech Bench is that it's a publicly accessible version of the database of benchmarks we've run internally. You can currently compare 34 AMD CPUs and 36 Intel CPUs in the engine across 18 benchmarks. I'm working on adding power data as well.
You can access Bench at its own URL: http://www.anandtech.com/bench
Currently Bench only has CPU data in it but there are plans to expand it to storage and GPUs in the future, the former being far easier than the latter due to constantly changing drivers. The data used in bench is the same data used in our reviews, but it has to be entered in manually after a new CPU launches. If you ever see a chip get reviewed on AT but don't see its data in Bench, drop me a line and I'll make sure it gets in there.
Today I added in data for the Atom 230 and 330 processors using Intel's D945GCLF and D945GCLF2 motherboards so you can see exactly how both single and dual-core Atom stack up to modern day desktop microprocessors.
I'm also considering running data on an older CPU. In my recent Zotac Ion review I included performance results from a single-core Northwood Pentium 4 2.66GHz processor, which inspired me to want to run a whole slew of older P4 numbers for inclusion in bench.
I don't think it's wise to spend several weeks rerunning every single old CPU out there, but I figured one or two couldn't hurt.
Any suggestions from the crowd? Is a single-core Pentium 4 good enough or would you like to see some dual-core P4 stuff? What about anything from the Athlon 64 days? Respond in the comments and come to some sort of reasonable agreement and I'll see about getting the data in there :)
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Lord 666 - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - link
The Northwood 2.4C or 3.0C would be great baselines.chitra - Thursday, May 21, 2009 - link
How about P4 Prescott? I still have one in my PC.. and would like to see some benchmarks with it :)mino - Monday, May 25, 2009 - link
Prescott ~ Nortwood + some heat. No need to rerun the same numbers besides Pentium D 900 series.Also some Gallatin score would be interesting :)
mmp121 - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - link
I also vote for the P4 3.0C NorthwoodBeing as I am currently still running it in my main rig, I would LOVE to see how much of a boost I'm going to get when I build me a new rig after 6+ years this xmas.
suppliesidejesus - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - link
Definitely would like to see some Opteron scores in there.maxxcool - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - link
additional thought, could there be a set of check boxes in the "comparison section" indicating the winner of the category, and if possible by what % it out performed the opposition...ssj4Gogeta - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - link
Yes that's a nice idea. The percentages could be green text when the first chip wins and red when it loses.erple2 - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - link
I really like that idea. I had a little bit of trouble looking "at a glance" which processor "won" any particular benchmark - mainly because for some benchmarks, you want lower numbers, and for others higher. Percentages are nice, too. - you can use the slower of the comparison as the "baseline" and show the percent improvement of the second one. That would give me a great idea just how much percent increase in performance moving to a "newer" processor would be.However, I do like this quite a bit. Someone complained about the margins - they're really not as bad as people claim.
maxxcool - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - link
IE, Desktop 35/45watt cpu's from intel and Amd in reduced speed modes (like 1ghz) to compare against dual core atoms, and or high speed 1.8 - 2.0 ghz single core atoms?As for old p4's? meh... I would be more interested in the single-core Core-dou variants, Core based Celerons and single core Semprons for budget builds or for cheap office pc builds running data entry/records processing/word/etc.
jhon1234 - Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - link
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