If you don't understand that you can not directly compare Ghz of different architectures the you fail.....
In theory you could have one chip that runs at 1mhz being more powerful than another that runs at 1Ghz. Ghz is a measurement of clock cycles not power.
@nooruls143 Moorestown will be between 1.1 and 1.5GHz at launch. Not only that, but Atom does more work clock per clock, so even if it was just 800 MHz it would still smoke the Snapdragon and A4.
@stewie325 NetBurst arch was so hot, so fun, we were all so excited when it came out... It was so hot that it pushed Intel and its users to a craziness of cooling war... They re-designed socket, heatsink, fans, ventilation, ... Never before liquid Nitrogen, or even heatpipes, was used in consumer PCs, AFAIK.
@nooruls143 They wouldn't make it less than 1ghz, the iPhone was really the only os that could functionally, and.. Um fastly? Run and run smooth, android needed 1ghz to even be somewhat usable, so ghz does not always mean performance, if the os is made correctly, you need less ghz, and then you have the freedom to go a bit faster and have it be even better, rather than having low end ones that don't work, and then high end ones that just barely work enough
Most of Atom's performance advantage, clock-for-clock can be accounted for by the high-performance (and high power) memory modules and controller. Atom's 533MHz DDR3 certainly trumps the ~133MHz LP-DDR2 most of these ARM devices use.
When performing something entirely CPU bound like an FFT, you can actually see a Cortex A8 performs better clock-for-clock than an Atom. An A9 or Snapdragon should do even better. This is to be expected as Atom is a dual-issue, in-order design just like the A8 but with the overhead of x86.
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If not = 1 GHz or more then FAIL!!!
@nooruls143
Clock speed != performance.
@nooruls143
If you don't understand that you can not directly compare Ghz of different architectures the you fail.....
In theory you could have one chip that runs at 1mhz being more powerful than another that runs at 1Ghz. Ghz is a measurement of clock cycles not power.
@nooruls143
You remind me of the Pentium 4 generation who took years to accept a lower clockspeed multi-core CPU was better, more power efficient, etc.
@nooruls143 Moorestown will be between 1.1 and 1.5GHz at launch. Not only that, but Atom does more work clock per clock, so even if it was just 800 MHz it would still smoke the Snapdragon and A4.
@stewie325
NetBurst arch was so hot, so fun, we were all so excited when it came out...
It was so hot that it pushed Intel and its users to a craziness of cooling war... They re-designed socket, heatsink, fans, ventilation, ... Never before liquid Nitrogen, or even heatpipes, was used in consumer PCs, AFAIK.
@lookseehear
Megapixel count= picture quality
@nooruls143 They wouldn't make it less than 1ghz, the iPhone was really the only os that could functionally, and.. Um fastly? Run and run smooth, android needed 1ghz to even be somewhat usable, so ghz does not always mean performance, if the os is made correctly, you need less ghz, and then you have the freedom to go a bit faster and have it be even better, rather than having low end ones that don't work, and then high end ones that just barely work enough
@huzzlehoff
/sarcasm
@jiggpig Well, yes and no. A bunch of benchmarks were done:
http://www.slideshare.net/napoleaninlondon/arm-cortex-a8-vs-intel-atomarchitectural-and-benchmark-comparisons
As well as:
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/print/2010/4/7/the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86.aspx
Most of Atom's performance advantage, clock-for-clock can be accounted for by the high-performance (and high power) memory modules and controller. Atom's 533MHz DDR3 certainly trumps the ~133MHz LP-DDR2 most of these ARM devices use.
When performing something entirely CPU bound like an FFT, you can actually see a Cortex A8 performs better clock-for-clock than an Atom. An A9 or Snapdragon should do even better. This is to be expected as Atom is a dual-issue, in-order design just like the A8 but with the overhead of x86.
@That guy 2
I am not sure you really understand this subject....