blog.wired.com - 11/14/2008
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PC Pro has been testing Intel's new dual-core Atom 330 processor, and while it's faster than the netbook-favorite Atom N270, it isn't by much.
The chip tested was a desktop version, sitting atop a big, netbook-unfriendly motherboard. The clock speed of the 330 is the same 1.6 GHz of its ...
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Dual-core Atom benchmarks return interesting data
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... optimized netbook with the single-core chip against a desktop version of the dual-core chip.
In other tests, the dual-core CPU did pretty well: 2D graphics, encoding, and multitasking all saw the 330 outpacing both the N270 and the VIA. Perhaps the bigger test, though, will be to see how the added core affects battery life and how much it’ll add to the price of certain netbooks.
Dual-core Atom 330 benchmarked [PC Pro via Wired]
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