In its press release on the official release of Pine Trail, Intel has said about improving the productivity of its new solutions, but the specific numbers and data does not. Long before the release of the new platform, many observers hoped that the second generation of Atom will show a significant increase in performance in the graphics subsystem and will work comfortably with HD-video. As in reality, represents a new platform?
Staff online store Cartft.com managed to get motherboards Intel D410PT and D510MO, designed based on the new platform, and evaluated their performance using benchmarks from Futuremark Corporation and Maxon. But before analyzing the results let’s get with the characteristics of the circuit board.
Intel D410PT replaced the D945GCLF, which is designed to work with the Atom 230 chip. Among the features new items chipset Intel NM10 Express, embedded processor, Intel D410 with integrated graphics GMA 3150, two slots for DDR2 memory modules with a total capacity of up to 4 GB dual port SATA, slot PCI, LAN controller Fast Ethernet, exit D-Sub, 4 USB ports 2.0.
Intel D510MO came as a replacement model D945GCLF2, working in conjunction with dual-core Atom 330 chips. From Intel D410PT novelty differs Gigabit Ethernet-controller, the presence of nests Mini PCI Express, as well as a built-in Intel D510 processor with integrated graphics GMA 3150.
In comparative testing, participants not only the predecessor of the new cards, D945GCLF and D945GCLF2, but also solutions from other manufacturers, including the graphics card Zotac NVIDIA ION. To assess the performance benchmarks used PC Mark’05, 3D Mark’01, 3D Mark’03 and Cinebench R10.
As expected, in tests, where key is the graphics subsystem, with a huge margin win card with the chip NVIDIA ION. There’s even nothing to comment, all graphics clearly show.
also conducted test Super Pi 8M. Here also all be explained – the new processor with improved architecture shown excellent results, leaving the competition far behind.
So, the new platform to speed really confident ahead of its predecessor, and in all the tests showed best result. But the optimistic expectations were not justified – significant changes in the graphics subsystem has not happened and to get really powerful modern multimedia systems for use with high-quality video without the support of solutions, for example, NVIDIA ION, is indispensable. “Nuclear” platform in its pure form remains the preserve of smaller, quieter, energy-efficient, but does not differ outstanding performance, entry-level systems.
Materials on the topic:
– Successful Graphics NVIDIA Ion for successful Intel Atom processor
– ECS TIGT-I: board with an embedded chip Intel Atom D510;
– NVIDIA GTC 2009: 3D-graphics today and tomorrow.
