PCMark Vantage
PC Mark Benchmark is another synthetic benchmark that is designed to stress and evaluate you total system and the spit out an overall number as well as individual component numbers. The overall score for the system was in the 2000s range which is definitely not too shabby for a system whose general purpose is to play HD – movies, browse the internet, and allow for some light office computing. The top of the line systems score above 6000s while laptops generally score in the same range as this system did.
SiSoft Sandra
Arithmetic Benchmark
The Arithmetic benchmark measures the ability of your processor to do logical calculations. This mostly impacts the ALU (Arithmetic Logical Unit) part of the processor. The higher the result in this test, the better. In terms of real world applications, better results on this test typically yield faster video rendering, encoding, and file processing (zipping, encrypting, etc..). Here the Atom 330 placed 3rd when compared to the UL Voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processors.
SiSoft Sandra – Video Rendering
The Video rendering Benchmarks is especially important to this evaluation because it directly represents just what this system was built to do. As such, it definitely delivered a positive results. Coming in miles ahead of the 8400M GS, it delivered a performance similar to that of a 9400M GS which is what it was claimed to perform at with 28.26 MPixels/s of Float Shaders and 3.32 MPixels/s of Double shaders. This means the system is capable of some light 3D applications and games. While you won’t be playing Crysis or COD4 Modern Warfare 2 on this system, some of the older games are a distinct possibility.
SiSoft Sandra – MultiCore Efficiency
This benchmark correlates the result obtained in the in previous benchmarks by displaying the performance of particular parts. One of the results that we should be primarily concerned with is those of the multi-core efficiency. Since the 330 is the first Atom processor that contains 2 hyper-threaded cores, the results for the multiple core efficiency should be higher than x2.
In this case, because of the hyper-threading, SiSoft Sandra sees this system as having 3.3 processors instead of 2.
SiSoft Sandra – Multimedia
The multimedia benchmark evaluates the performance related to the ability of your processor to play multimedia content such as movies. Here the ION-TOP came in third, again losing only to the UL Voltage Core 2 Duos.
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