What's the 'real world' performance difference between, say, the atom 330 and the z530 in this? Any word on the graphics capabilities of this thing (1080p offloading etc)?
@sim888 All Intel Silverthorne Z5xx processors come with the GMA500, which for all intents and purposes is much better than the GMA950, but it needs some serious driver work done. It has hardware decoding of H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4, VC1, and WMV9 formats, and can play full 1080p content flawlessly. Now the difference between an Atom N330 and the Z530 is almost night and day horsepower wise. But the real kicker is that the Z530 only uses 2.4w of power, and the SCH+CPU uses just under 5w total. Those are amazing numbers for something that can fully run Windows 7, play 1080p HD, Aero, etc... This is coming from experience, as I own a Viliv S5. The only weak point of the Poulsbo Chipset is it's internal storage connection... Poulsbo features 0 (!) SATA lanes, only PATA, because it's more power efficient when the HDD/SSD is being heavily paged.
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What's the 'real world' performance difference between, say, the atom 330 and the z530 in this? Any word on the graphics capabilities of this thing (1080p offloading etc)?
@sim888
All Intel Silverthorne Z5xx processors come with the GMA500, which for all intents and purposes is much better than the GMA950, but it needs some serious driver work done. It has hardware decoding of H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4, VC1, and WMV9 formats, and can play full 1080p content flawlessly. Now the difference between an Atom N330 and the Z530 is almost night and day horsepower wise. But the real kicker is that the Z530 only uses 2.4w of power, and the SCH+CPU uses just under 5w total. Those are amazing numbers for something that can fully run Windows 7, play 1080p HD, Aero, etc... This is coming from experience, as I own a Viliv S5. The only weak point of the Poulsbo Chipset is it's internal storage connection... Poulsbo features 0 (!) SATA lanes, only PATA, because it's more power efficient when the HDD/SSD is being heavily paged.
@Cyberdyne Systems
Good info, thanks !
@Cyberdyne Systems Awesome, thanks for the info, appreciated!