Intel's New Atom D510 Benchmark Tested

adeelarshad82 writes "The Atom processor in nettops and netbooks is one of Intel's success stories for 2009. Recently PCMag put the new Intel Atom D510 processor through its paces, to see how it stacks up against previous generation Atom CPUs. Using a whitebox system from Intel, they ran their usual set of benchmark tests on the system. In summary the D510-equipped whitebox finished neck and neck with the dual-core powered Acer R3610-U9012. So while there are differences between the two, if you already have a nettop running the dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor you won't have to upgrade 'just because' there's a new CPU in the wings."

So in other words

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A chip released in 2009 is still on par with a PIII from close to a decade ago?

Although lower power is always nice.

Re:It's an admission

[Anonymous Coward]

That is why Flash was developed. It requires lots of resources even for simple tasks. It brings back the computing experience of the late 90s.