VIA Nano and Intel's Atom benchmarked head-to-head

From Engadget -

PC Perspective, Eee PC News, and Hot Hardware all ran comparison tests of the Via Nano and the Intel Atom 230 recently, and a 1.8GHz Nano L2100 with Chrome9 graphics outperformed a 1.6GHz Atom 230 with GMA950 graphics at everything from MP3 ripping to 3D benchmarking. There are trade-offs with the Nano a bit more power-hungry, and the Atom's memory and graphics systems occasionally. Still, the Nano seems to have more raw horsepower than the Atom -- and it's pin-compatible with VIA's popular C7M, so hopefully subnotebooks like HP's Mini-Note will make the jump.


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