Re:Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake
by toast0 on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:38PM
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I agree, the Atom processors have tended to be fine. Lots of questionable accompanying technology choices or marketing practices though.
1st gen Atoms with the chipset (945?) that was bigger and hotter than the processors was kind of amusing.
That Intel can't help itself from making confusing product names is pretty inexcusable. If a 'Pentium' is an Atom or not makes a big difference in what the specifications mean, and it's not clear to regular people that a dual-core mainstream Intel is about performance equal to a quad-core Atom (assuming similar age chips).
Laptop makers love to combine atom CPUs with amazingly slow spinning hard drives, and they're usually pretty small too. Windows 10 performance on a spinning drive is trash, and it's even worse when it's a low rpm laptop drive. Doesn't help that they're often as little ram as possible and soldered down (although even with 8GB ram, Windows 10 will flog a spinning drive just sitting at the desktop; who knows what it's doing).
It would be interesting to see a 4p+24e or 6p+16e setup for parallelized loads though. Not sure there's currently a need for that on the desktop though.
1st gen Atoms with the chipset (945?) that was bigger and hotter than the processors was kind of amusing.
That Intel can't help itself from making confusing product names is pretty inexcusable. If a 'Pentium' is an Atom or not makes a big difference in what the specifications mean, and it's not clear to regular people that a dual-core mainstream Intel is about performance equal to a quad-core Atom (assuming similar age chips).
Laptop makers love to combine atom CPUs with amazingly slow spinning hard drives, and they're usually pretty small too. Windows 10 performance on a spinning drive is trash, and it's even worse when it's a low rpm laptop drive. Doesn't help that they're often as little ram as possible and soldered down (although even with 8GB ram, Windows 10 will flog a spinning drive just sitting at the desktop; who knows what it's doing).
It would be interesting to see a 4p+24e or 6p+16e setup for parallelized loads though. Not sure there's currently a need for that on the desktop though.