Benchmarks of ECS P45GC with Intel Atom 1.6GHz Dual Core N330
Bluetooth 22 Sept 2008

Benchmarks

We ran some basic benchmarks on the machine. This is because most of the benchmarks of today won't even run correctly on this processor.  We ran Super PI, Sisoft Sandra XII, HD Tach etc. Here are the results.

System Configuration:

• ECS P45GC

• Intel ATOM Dual Core N330 1.6GHz

• 1GB Kingston DDR2-1066 running at CAS 4-4-4-12, DDR2-533

• Hitachi Deskstar SATAII HDD
   

So how does the dual core perform. If we were to take into consideration the OS used, we will compare it with the ECS 956GCT-D and Gigabyte M912 which are loaded with VISTA while the other three were running XP. Do take note that the ECS 945GCT-D was running with 2GB of DDR2-533 while the Gigabyte M912 network uses So-DIMM and the board we test uses Corsair DDR2 modules running at SPD which is set automatically to CAS 4,4,4,12,2T DDR2-533.

From the results, we can easily see that the dual core Atom N330 performs way better in the synthetic benchmark Drystone Whetstone, multimedia Int x8 and Float x4 operations against the single core N270. In fat those results were almost doubled. In terms of Super PI, there is no major improvement as it is a single core that is running it and it took 1m 34s to complete the 1Million test. As an external SATAII Hitachi 7K80 is used to test, the results are far better than the slower SSDs. Something interesting is the Gigabyte M912 which spots a 2.5" Fujitsu scored 51.1MB/s.

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