Article recommendation: AMD Athlon 64 2000+ vs. Intel Atom 230
Tom \ 's Hardware has compared AMD's old-new processor to the Intel Atom.
Although the Athlon 64 2000+ (1 GHz, 256 KB L2 cache) is a new player in the processor market, we can welcome you as an old acquaintance in our circles, as we can get to know a central unit based on the K8 microarchitecture. In Tom \\ 's Hardware test, this processor performs surprisingly well against Intel Atom, but keep in mind that this is a kind of temporary solution from AMD, as Atom's direct rival is not this, but the one still under development. Bobcat will be.
After viewing and studying the test, we can say that the AMD Athlon 64 2000+ is an absolutely competitive solution, even though it consumes a few W more than the Intel Atom 230, however, when applied to the complete platform, the situation reverses, since the advanced energy management of the AMD 780G "does not knows what to do" the outdated Intel 945GC.
AMD's central unit is also supported by the fact that the CPU performed its task stably and flawlessly even with the fan removed, while the Atom "suffered" from the lack of an air stirrer. The Intel processor is supported by the fact that there is a mini-ITX-sized board "underneath", while the AMD 780G is in most cases on ATX or micro-ATX "boards", but this statement does not completely cover the reality either. , since the 170 × 170 mm J&W MINIX 780G-SP128MB board can be mentioned to refute it, on which this chipset also serves.
The complete test can be accessed by clicking on the source link: in the forefront, we can say that the tests were mixed, with the Intel Atom 230 and the AMD Athlon 64 2000+ performing better.
