After trying out the Sony Vaio P, I was curious whether there’s any performance difference between the Intel Atom Z530 and the Atom N270. Both chips run at 1.6GHz so I thought they’d have similar results with Super Pi.
Archive for March, 2009
The main difference between the Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz and the Atom N280 1.66GHz is the FSB. The latter has 667MHz while the former has 533MHz. The clock speed difference is merely 67 Megahertz. See below our comparative chart.
Yesterday, while scouting around for that elusive Phenom II X4, I chanced upon this new processor SKU from AMD — the Athlon 64 X2 7750 Black Edition at 2.7GHz. It’s the first time I saw this Black Edition processor in the shelves. Curiosity got the better of me so I grabbed a unit and assembled a rig at home.

