CPU benchmarks
| HEXUS.PiFast calculation to 10m places | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion dv2 | ASUS U20A | ASUS Seashell 1005HA | MSI Wind |
| 82.6 | 75.48 | 194.21 | 205.49 |
Starting off with the single-threaded HEXUS.PiFast test, Atom's performance isn't great. The Seashell beats out the same-model Atom in the Wind due to the slight overclock on the chip - 1.68GHz vs. 1.60GHz.
| 7-zip compression of 205MB files | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion dv2 | ASUS U20A | ASUS Seashell 1005HA | MSI Wind |
| 243 | 191 | 215 | 235 |
Matters look better when the HyperThreading on the chip comes out to play in the dual-threaded 7-zip compression test.
| CINEBENCH R10 64-bit - multi-CPU render | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion dv2 | ASUS U20A | ASUS Seashell 1005HA | MSI Wind |
| 1211 | 1281 | 889 | 821 |
And the situation looks reasonable in CINEBENCH. As an architecture comparison, an Intel Core i7 975 EE scores in the region of 20,000 marks.
| Terminator Salvation 480p (mov) playback via VLC | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion dv2 | ASUS U20A | ASUS Seashell 1005HA | MSI Wind |
| 20.2 | 21.72 | 20.6 | 22.4 |
| Terminator Salvation 720p (mov) playback via VLC | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| HP Pavilion dv2 | ASUS U20A | ASUS Seashell 1005HA | MSI Wind |
| 46.2 | 45.65 | 49.2 | 55.2 |
Here we're using VLC to playback a couple of H.264-encoded trailers of Terminator Salvation. The differences lie with resolution and bit-rate, and whilst the two Atom chips aren't stressed to the maximum, bit-rate spikes cause the non-GPU-accelerated test to corrupt and stutter at 720p.
