Benchmarks comparing Atom and Celeron
I finally found a site that compares (among others) the EeePC 900 and 901 in a couple of benchmarks. OCW compares an ECS 945GCT-D motherboard with an Atom processor at 1.6GHz with an MSI Wind running XP (and both of these have a hard drive) to the two EeePCs. Given the mixture of Vista and XP and HDD and SSD I think that the numbers for EeePC 900 vs EeePC 901 are the most interesting.
The Atom-based 901 wins almost all of the benchmarks - higher memory bandwidth (between +15% and +38%). Higher integer and floating point performance (Whetstone and Dhrystone both show around 50% improvement) and even more significantly between 2x and 3.5x the performance in some multimedia benchmarks.
Interestingly enough the 900 is actually faster in the Super PI 1M benchmark - I’m very curious to find out why.
What is missing is battery life - other tests that I’ve seen grant the 901 between 1.5x and 2x the battery life of the 900. Overall, very nice!
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