(02-04-2014, 01:22 AM)lamedude Wrote: The single core Atoms get a beating from a P4 and even the dual core ones lose some. This thing couldn't run Vista, but since it was cheap OEMs ate them up. So much Intel had to put restrictions on netbooks to stop it from cannibalizing the more expensive notebook CPUs.
Intel did manage to get Haswell down to 12w but at 10x the price of an Atom.
(02-03-2014, 09:05 PM)tueidj Wrote: x86 has already been the king of that for a long time. FPU/MMX/MMX-EXT/3DNOW/3DNOW-EXT/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3/SSE4/SSE4.1/SSE4.2/AVX/BMI1/BMI2/XOP/AVX2...If you want to support everything yeah you got your work cut for you, but you used to be able to say Athlon XP to slow SSE2 now required (modders had to send Bethesda that memo for Skyrim), but Intel is selling Pentium Haswell's that don't support AVX so it will be while before AVX only binaries become the norm.
Why the link from 2010? Atoms can run Windows 8.1 no problem and can run PC games well for its performance sector.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9K9ZMJOPMQ
Why are people so insistent that Atom = Horrible?