Preview: VIA VN1000 And Nano DC Platform: An IGP With Game?

[g00fysmiley]

its cool that they are making energy efficient chips and all, but i hope they eventually expand at elast into the low-mid end cpu grounds, i used to have an old cyrix chip (133 mhz) that chip was great. and it'd be nice to see more competition on the cpu front

 

[shadowmaster625]

Why did you not compare with amd Kx25?

 

[IonRa]

VIA, I Cheer you.

 

[jeff77789]

its sad that a core2 e6400 duo and a geforce 6800 has barely playable frame rates on modern warfare as well as these

 

[abinormal]

Look out for the monkey wrench. Page 4, CPU-Z Via Dual(?) core processor. 1 core, 1 thread does not sound like dual core to me. Looks like that motherboard/BIOS needs a little refining. This actually makes things even more interesting. I was wondering about the AES encryption and customer kernels too. Thank you for the reviews.

 

[Guest]

TNT2 comparison for IGP performance? Umm, all of these IGPs are a lot faster than a TNT2.

 

[tralalak]

abinormal: Page 4, CPU-Z Via Dual(?) core processor. 1 core, 1 thread does not sound like dual core to me.

What VIA did was just double the cores on a single die, and allow these cores to communicate with each other through the front side bus (much like the Intel Pentium 4 did, as well as the Core 2 Quad products).

Processor #1: 1 core, 1thread
Processor #2 (or Processor #0): 1 core, 1 thread

 

[Guest]

I cant stand Intel overcharging obnoxiously for their Atom platform. Atom is seriously a product back from 2003-2004, yet notebook makers are doing a massive archive-reprint to get easy profit.

Atom Netbooks easily top the excess-notebooks inventory-list; retails at $700 and you thought you stole it at $450, but you got tired and dump it off at $150 at eBay.

Short-life-product contributes a huge load of global waste, Intel should be fined by FDA.

Even though AMD has good notebook cpus and gpus, MOST notebook makers are still producing bad AMD products. Users do not understand that, a balanced platform consists of good CPU + GPU + LCD Screen. (Any dual core processor is GOOD performing, even at 1.2 GHZ.)

Phenom/Turion + 785 chipset costs more than the underperforming ATOM and lame PowerVR-Intel GMA counterpart. Notebook makers are willing to adapt AMD's solution but matched it up with poorer components to make up differences(compared to higher profit margin from using Atom+GMA solution).

ATI/Nvidia GPU can easily go for high resolution graphics, similiar to desktop solutions. Onboard video is able to provide high resolution platforms and superior colors.

In the end, end-users buy solutions with sub-par screen(1366x768, 15 inchers), subpar harddisk(5400rpm) and sub-par batteries(4 cells 40W compared to 8 cells 78W on the core i5).

With Intel at AMD, Nvidia's throats, VIA will NOT have a smooth ride at this. Even when you have a good product, the notebook manufacturers are biased with INTEL's products+rebates, just like how they discriminate AMD's notebook solutions. Good products ends up in the substitutes bench.

VIA, LAST SHOT before you exit x86 market.

INTEL... MONOPOLY... OVERPRICED MCAFEE... HIDDEN MANUFACTURERS' REBATES... BALANCED ACCOUNT...