speaking of via, i was impressed with the nano. you can actually play crysis at reasonable framerates. that is more than what could be said for my old opty and 7900gs.
well it's also GPU dependent (I think the demo used some kind of Nvidia IGP), but the nano is definitely impressive in performance/watt
I'm trying to see what laptops will be using it. I want one.
One of the big advantages that nano has over atom is the use of pciexpress. I haven't seen any atom setups with anything other than pci. The nano's general performance proportionally is also closer to that of a desktop processor. I did the math, for the 3dmark 06 cpu score its ratio of points per clock is similar to an X2 6000+.
yeah, it's can do roughly 3 IPC. It'll have about the same performance as the earlier Athlon XP's, but using way less power.
K7 and K8 could do roughly 3 IPC. Though K8 could get data faster (IMC), which made it perform better per clock.
I heard HP has ordered a bunch of nano processors, but I'm not sure when we'll actually see them for sale.
They should be pretty cheap. They are designed for low-power systems.
I heard that they were going to put them in the mininote refresh, but nothing concrete. It would be a shame if Via can't get them in the market. The Nano is the superior chip. That Atom isn't bad, but it was designed for PDAs, not pcs. The Nano was designed form the ground up with mini-itx in mind.
I heard that they were going to put them in the mininote refresh, but nothing concrete. It would be a shame if Via can't get them in the market. The Nano is the superior chip. That Atom isn't bad, but it was designed for PDAs, not pcs. The Nano was designed form the ground up with mini-itx in mind.
I have heard of that also, but I don't know when it will make it into netbooks.
Does anyone know where to buy nanos? All of the usual places that carry Via stuff don't have them. Are they OEM only? Seems counter intuitive since most of Via's cpu share is DIYers.