They do say the atom is a 1.6gHz atom, and their setup is dual core, so I guess the atom is a single core atom then, so keep that in mind when he says at the end the arm runs at 500mHz, it actually runs at 2 times 500 we can conclude. Plus there's only so much power that is used by a browser, unless the site is REALLY crappy designed (and there are too many of those sites it's true)
Not that ARM's aren't nice, and I hope they retain at least an equal marketshare in the low-power segment compared to intel in the coming years.
@chaoscentral that is really good explanation from now one if i have to explain Preprocessors to my friend im gonna use this explanation. but Atom is also a virtual dual core (wat ever that means) wouldn't that also be close to the same way of running
To the two of you, actually, the Dual-core is two brains, but with only one memory-based portion (shared) which created the need in Intel's products for something like SmartCache, which allocates space dynamically. So, it is as if the two cars have the same pool. Let's say there is a fat lady who takes up 10 spaces, and another pool of 10 one-space people. Two cars with 5 open seats will not hold her, but will drag her along very slowly. A bus/10-person car/pickup truck will have room, just no extra, and the groceries (background processes) can't fit, and so need another trip. Virtual dual core (called hyper threading by Intel) is like a two-ended train. Both ends have motors and wheels and everything needed to run, and can split apart (well, pretend they can) to take half the load separately, but to different places. Together, they can take a bunch of fat ladies efficiently to the same location, providing a best-of-both-worlds approach in all but power efficiency. One which I will not dare enter for lack of knowledge.
I'm not quite THAT ignorant, but more and more software is multi-threaded, including browsers and some well-known plugins, so having 2 cores should make a difference even when browsing if you are dealing with a system that's easily taxed. And it just is a bit unfair to compare 2 clockspeeds but ignore that one is a dual core and the other not. Again: not that there's anything wrong with ARM's, in fact I think they do just fine showing their qualities without such foolishness as twisting comparisons.
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They do say the atom is a 1.6gHz atom, and their setup is dual core, so I guess the atom is a single core atom then, so keep that in mind when he says at the end the arm runs at 500mHz, it actually runs at 2 times 500 we can conclude.
Plus there's only so much power that is used by a browser, unless the site is REALLY crappy designed (and there are too many of those sites it's true)
Not that ARM's aren't nice, and I hope they retain at least an equal marketshare in the low-power segment compared to intel in the coming years.
@Wwhat
dual core cpu speeds don't work that way, its not 500 x2, its still just 500mhz that can run multiple things at once.
I'll give ya a good example
Say you need to move 10 people on a trip
Single Core CPU = 1 car can hold 5 people
Dual Core CPU = 2 cars can hold 5 people each
They move at the same speed, it just takes the single core longer because it has to make 2 trips instead of 1.
You aren't magically increasing the speed by 2 because u have 2 cores
@chaoscentral that is really good explanation from now one if i have to explain Preprocessors to my friend im gonna use this explanation. but Atom is also a virtual dual core (wat ever that means) wouldn't that also be close to the same way of running
@chaoscentral
To the two of you, actually, the Dual-core is two brains, but with only one memory-based portion (shared) which created the need in Intel's products for something like SmartCache, which allocates space dynamically. So, it is as if the two cars have the same pool.
Let's say there is a fat lady who takes up 10 spaces, and another pool of 10 one-space people. Two cars with 5 open seats will not hold her, but will drag her along very slowly. A bus/10-person car/pickup truck will have room, just no extra, and the groceries (background processes) can't fit, and so need another trip.
Virtual dual core (called hyper threading by Intel) is like a two-ended train. Both ends have motors and wheels and everything needed to run, and can split apart (well, pretend they can) to take half the load separately, but to different places. Together, they can take a bunch of fat ladies efficiently to the same location, providing a best-of-both-worlds approach in all but power efficiency. One which I will not dare enter for lack of knowledge.
I'm not quite THAT ignorant, but more and more software is multi-threaded, including browsers and some well-known plugins, so having 2 cores should make a difference even when browsing if you are dealing with a system that's easily taxed.
And it just is a bit unfair to compare 2 clockspeeds but ignore that one is a dual core and the other not.
Again: not that there's anything wrong with ARM's, in fact I think they do just fine showing their qualities without such foolishness as twisting comparisons.