VIA Isaiah Beating Intel Atom?

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O.K., I can’t read German and translating the page does little to help but, according to a graph on this site, VIA’s Isaiah seems to be edging out Intel’s Atom. Stuff like this is always good to stir up the masses while we wait to see some real world testing.

Now, for the big question…is it hard to believe that VIA’s new Isaiah could beat Intel? From what we saw and the information we have, the numbers you see above could very well be representative of the processors real world performance. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, now won’t we?
 
that's crazy good for via if they did. hope its true so it pushes intel and amd to work hard too :D
 
Atom is very constrained. It's slower clock for clock than current mobile Celerons. Of course if Atom goes dual core, that will help, but its intended goal was low power rather than performance.
 
but what about power efficiency.

Core 2, Celeron M, etc.. all beat Atom, but not in the low power department.

The real question is how will the 2 perform if you put it on a performance per watt.
 
Yea... but isn't Isiah a roughly 25W TDP part, maybe a little less sine the benched one is only 1.6ghz?
25W TDP at 2.0GHz
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Isaiah

Intel Atom is a 4W for single core, 8W for dual core?
A 1.8 GHz Atom processor's single thread performance is equivalent to its predecessor Intel A100 but should outperform it on applications that can leverage simultaneous multithreading, SSE3, and EM64T x64 extensions.[10] Using the single threaded SuperPI benchmark the higher clocked 1600mhz Silverthorne processor was unable to beat it's lower clocked 900mhz Celeron predecessor.[11] It has a 0.6W to 2.5 TDP rating that can dip down to .01W[12] when idle but that doesn't include the power consumption of the chipset.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom

And is it a single core Atom, or dual core. Need more info to go with graph for the data to mean jack.
 
Menelmarar said:
Yea... but isn't Isiah a roughly 25W TDP part, maybe a little less sine the benched one is only 1.6ghz?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Isaiah

Intel Atom is much less...
A 1.8 GHz Atom processor's single thread performance is equivalent to its predecessor Intel A100 but should outperform it on applications that can leverage simultaneous multithreading, SSE3, and EM64T x64 extensions.[10] Using the single threaded SuperPI benchmark the higher clocked 1600mhz Silverthorne processor was unable to beat it's lower clocked 900mhz Celeron predecessor.[11] It has a 0.6W to 2.5 TDP rating that can dip down to .01W[12] when idle but that doesn't include the power consumption of the chipset.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom

And is it a single core Atom, or dual core. Is it a Silverthorn or a Diamondville. Need more info to go with graph for the data to mean jack.
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Can't edit, fixed. Didn't read what I quoted.
 
Isaiah integer performance is pretty impressive if that benchmark is any good. It's nowhere near the same power class in mobiles as Atom though. The Atom 1.6GHz is a 2W TDP chip. Isaiah 1.6GHz is a 20W TDP chip. The desktop Atom runs at 1.66GHz and has a 4W TDP.

Atom was not designed to a flat out performance monster anyways. It has a 2-way integer execution engine in a land of 4-way (Core 2) and 3-way (everyone else) x86 CPUs.
 
Hmm, nvidia could use a CPU maker to partner with.

I wonder if VIA could come up with a CPU to compete with Intel and/or AMD.
 
As others have said, I think this shows more about how powerful Atom is, than Isaiah. For it to match the FPU of a chip with a 5-10 times higher TDP, and still be competitive in the ALU department, is really impressive.
 
bfellow said:
Nvidia already formed a partnership with VIA I think. Maybe this is why!
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Sorry, but I can't make any sense in this?

Why is it that Nvidia already formed a partnership with VIA?

What I'm seeing here is the Atom being a very good chip for competing against a 25w TDP chip vs a 2/5W TDP chip.
 
Also, we have no idea if this is a Silverthorne or Diamondville chip. For all we know, it could be the former, which is the ultra-low-performance model designed for cell phones rather than even low-performance devices, like netbooks.
 
Menelmarar said:
And is it a single core Atom, or dual core. Need more info to go with graph for the data to mean jack.
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Atom is currently single core with hyper-threading. Dual core Atoms may come out Q3 or Q4.

And processor power usage is only one aspect of system power draw. It's usually the biggest, but there are many technologies that reduce CPU power draw when idle or not under full use.
 
Who will buy VIA's isaiah processor?

If im looking for a cheap processor for a desktop to browse the net, play some basic games, id go with a cheap C2D or Athlonx2. Probably cheaper than a VIA Isaiah system as well as being more powerfull.

If im looking at power draw because the system will be used elsewhere like a carpc/htpc/router/places where the ViaC7 has been used before, then the Atom wins every single time due to its power draw and "supposedly" cheaper components.

I know im negative towards it, maybe somebody could enlighten me and tell me in what scenario you would actually purchase one of these over an intel/amd system?
 
I tend to avoid Via systems myself Tony. I don't see a reason I'd ever buy a Via CPU over a AMD or Intel CPU either. The nice thing though the more CPU's that flood the market the better competition there will be. Makes me hope someone new pops into the market.
 
You can't edit posts, I read your name incorrectly Toytown and typed Tony instead. Oops. I'd edit my message but there is no editing.
 
ok so a vette can beat a civic but the civic gives better consumption characteristics.

lol
 
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