Efficiency Analysis: Atom D510 Vs. Atom D525/ION2

[agnickolov]

What doesn't make sense in this article is the PSU. 425W for 41W top power consumption makes the PSU run very inefficiently. What is needed here is a 70W to 85W PSU like the ones used for notebooks.

What doesn't make sense either is the complete omission of video playback benchmarks. The Intel-only D510 platform would have been decimated there, thus giving easy win to the new ION2 platform including in the efficiency comparison.

 

[dEAne]

I use this as a torrent rig. Always ON.

 

[Stardude82]

For all its virtues, VLC is horribly unoptimized and along with Flash has not been quick in developing GPU acceleration. MPC and Silverlight run fine for me.

 

[gmarsack]

[citation][nom]dEAne[/nom]I use this as a torrent rig. Always ON.[/citation]
Good use. I use one of my Atom's (230) as a Source Control Server (Subversion) and the other Atom (D510) as a Web Server, also always on. I've been running my one server since January and only turned it off once (due to a power failure). Both run 24-7 and barely make a dent in the electric bill. I will be buying another soon.

 

[MAD4AMD]

Thank, for review!

I totally agree that Asus 1215n shows all strengths of D525 + ION2 combo and this upper-class-netbook is amazing and very thought-over.

I suggest to explain how you estimate overall power eficiency, I didn't get it at start.

 

[Guest]

I would like to see a Celeron e3500 vs. athlon ii 240 on a Kwatt/hour performance base on finished tasks. Transcoding no-GPU-spoiled. Both are 65 watts. Both are entry level and almost same price and frequency. Changing only Motherboard and CPU.

 

[jbakerlent]

[citation][nom]tx-jose[/nom]sweet!!! I have a mini ITX buil but its a gigabyte pushing an 1156LGA i5 overclocked to 4.16GHz and DDR3 1333 ram!!! nice for HTPC with a GTS 250 Nvidia grafix card too .....[/citation]
LOL

 

[WarraWarra]

Some other website also came to the same ion+atom conclusion as here.

Shocked that a mobile phone is about to get a quad core but there is nothing quad core atom from Intel as of yet. (Samsung A15)

 

[Guest]

Based on your previous benchmark results,
- 'Single core Atom' processors are only marginally better than the 'dual core Atom' processors.

- And the 'old dual core Atom' processors are only marginally better than the 'new dual core Atom' processors.

- So really, Pineview or not, the only thing that is 'kind of' moving forward is the ION chip which now consumes more power and completely forgets that this is a low power category.

To be honest, this is a joke. And after two years of waiting for Atom refresh, its not even funny. Intel really is trying hard to make sure that Atom remains an underpowered chip while collecting a couple of billions off of its sales anyway. My only hope is that AMD will get its act together and start releasing chips that actually work.

 

[Guest]

Intel 510MO (atom 510) can absolutely do 1080p video.. A better comparison for this review would have been the 510 vs. 525/ eg, the 510mo vs. 525mw. Not going apples for apples, a poor review.

 

[Guest]

I found this after looking at mini boards on amazon.There was some good reviews,a video card makes a difference,the right one anyhow.check out the customer reviews.