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News is getting good again these days. Not only has AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 beaten the best SLI setup, but now

Athlon 64 2000+ at 8-watts outperforms, draws less energy than Atom - Engadget

Athlon Vs. Atom: Duel Of The Energy Savers : AMD Athlon 64 2000+ At 8 Watts - Tom's Hardware

Originally Posted by Engadget

Athlon 64 2000+ at 8-watts outperforms, draws less energy than Atom

from Engadget by Darren Murph
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
AMD's going through some rough times, no doubt about it, but for fanboys of the CPU maker (wait, do CPU fanboys still exist?) here's your feel-good story of the year. The always-thorough Tom's Hardware has pit Intel's 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor against AMD's Athlon 64 2000+, and the results just might surprise you. The 1GHz Athlon (with a core voltage of 0.90 volts and a power draw of just 8 watts) managed to best the aforementioned Atom in both energy consumption and processing power tests. The gurus at Tom's credited the more modern 790G platform and the highly efficient K8 architecture as big players in the Athlon's strong showing, finally deeming said chip "more economical, faster and quieter" than the Atom. We know you're in disbelief -- good thing there are 14 pages of proof waiting in the read link.

[Thanks, Carl]

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