Intel D945GCLF2 Review - Harnessing the Dual Core Atom
Submitted By steven on Sep 22 2008 at 7:49 AM
Applications - Super pi and 7-Zip
Super Pi once again makes its return to our benchmarking suite, a happy addition at that. However, the results here are less than impressive. The Atom 330 and Atom 230 are almost hand in hand regardless of the HyperThreading settings. Given that the Super Pi application is notoriously single threaded, it is clear that the 1.6GHz clock speed that both Atom processors share is what caused such results. The Celeron 215 actually winds up being the winner here, completing the 1m test in only 1 minute and 6 seconds, about 26 seconds faster than either of our Atom configurations. The VIA C7 shows surpsingly poor numbers, taking just over 8 minutes to complete the test.
7-Zip is a very popular archiving tool and the integrated benchmarking feature creates some rather cryptic results. As noted in our "How We Tested" portion of the article (page 3), all of our systems utilized only a single processing thread for some of the tests, regardless of HT settings. Our "xcpu" tagged results allow the mutlithreaded processors to make full use of their second processing thread. With this in mind, there are some rather interesting results when we compare the HT enabled Atom 330 and the HT-disabled Atom 330. As the test only utilizes two processing threads (of the 4 available to the HT-enabled Atom 330), it is clear that when the system utlizes both physical cores it performs slightly better than when it is utilizing one physical and one logical core. The Atom 330 with HT-disabled scores the highest on the charts with a final score of 1570 MIPs, almost 100 points higher than the Atom 330 with HT -- and nearly 336 points higher than the HT-enabled Atom 230 utilizing both processing threads. The D945GCLF2 and its dual core Atom 330 is the clear winner in this application test. It only lost to the D201GLY and its 1.33GHz Celeron 215 in the single threaded testing, where the Celeron scores a mere 29 points higher.
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