Intel new Atom beats AMD's Jaguar in performance

[RespawnCake]

http://anandtech.com/show/7314/intel-baytrail-preview-intel-atom-z3770-tested/2

 

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Anandtech have reviewed Intel's new Atom and it looks to finally deliver very competitive performance versus ARM processors at their trademark low power draws. What caught my eye is that it also beat the much higher power draw Jaguar used in the PS4 and XB1 in instructions per cycle (IPC).

This is quite exciting as it should mean that CPU wise, even bottom tier devices shouldn't have problems running most multiplatform next gen games (assuming most games aren't amazingly multithreaded). Of course, GPU heavy games will still require a beefy GPU but most GPU light next gen games should be quite playable on cheap Windows tablets releasing soon:

Jaguar= AMD A4-5000

 

 

[xRAGExSounDxRIOTX]

I thought that Microsoft were using their own APU?

[ALXAndy]

Bit late considering AMD beat them to the console punch.

 

The Jaguar is pretty weak. It was reviewed in a laptop a little while ago and yeah, quite lame really.

 

Which means that a modest CPU should easily take care of next gen console ports which I suppose is good news.

 

Still, I suppose Atom can be used in other solutions.

[D3MON]

Bit late considering AMD beat them to the console punch.

 

The Jaguar is pretty weak. It was reviewed in a laptop a little while ago and yeah, quite lame really.

 

Which means that a modest CPU should easily take care of next gen console ports which I suppose is good news.

 

Still, I suppose Atom can be used in other solutions.

since when hasnt a modest cpu been able to take care of most games? most people i know are into MMORPGs such as skyrim and swtor which only uses 2 threads so a current pentium dual core will be enough, its only in full hardcore titles such as battlefield series and crysis and metro etc that you need 4+ threads.

and seriously it beat amd by 0.01 in single threaded performance (which isnt that relevant these days) and got beaten by 0.02 in multithreaded. no story here.

but can it play minecraft?!?.....no.

id probably use it for a home server or something, i love low power but multi-core chips, onyl reason id have a next gen console would be to fold on it....

[TechFan@ic]

I wouldn't say beats, they're pretty much tied in CPU performance, however Jaguar still maintains a massive lead in graphics performance.
Intel's Atom uses a smaller lithography than Jaguar (22nm vs 28nm) so power efficiency advantages are automatic, what I've noticed however is that it's still terrible at graphics performance, even though it dedicates exactly the same percentage of area for graphics.

Intel Atom quad core.

 

AMD Jaguar quad core.