Over the next few months we should be seeing more and more netbooks making use of the latest generation of dual core Intel Atom processors, the Intel Atom N550.
The Intel Atom N550 runs at 1.5Ghz and has two physical cores, and can run four threads. While this sounds great, how does it actually perform on a netbook?
notebookitalia have got their hands on the upcoming Asus Eee PC 1015PN netbook which is one of the first netbooks to feature the new Atom N550, and have benchmarked its performance with 7-Zip.
Atom N550 Benchmark
They compared its performance against the popular Atom N450, Intel Core 2 Solo SU3300, Atom 330 and Atom D510 dual core processors.
The good new is it came out on top, offering the highest performance scores, beating out the competition.
It is also important to note the Atom N550′s power consumption (TDP), of 8.5W. While this is higher than the single core N450 at 5.5W, its lower than the 13W of the D510 dual core.
June 16th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Anyone know when the first dual-core + ION 2 netbooks will be shipping? I’m going to college this fall and need something this month.
June 17th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Today is your luck day!
The Eee PC 1201PN Ion 2 is shipping. Although its single core N450.
http://www.netbookreviews.net/asus/1201pn/
June 21st, 2010 at 4:55 pm
How does this compare to the AMD offerings (K125/K325/etc)?
August 31st, 2010 at 11:59 pm
I will wait for Acer lineup with N550 processor. What would be its cost approximately in India?
January 29th, 2011 at 2:44 am
The cost will 220 Rupees.
September 20th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Hopefully there will be some Acer and Asus 12.1″ netbooks shipping soon with this processor for under $500. If so, I hope they have a 5 hour battery life. We’ll see I guess . . .
October 1st, 2011 at 12:18 pm
My netbook has this processor and the performance is quite nice. This tiny monster running Ubuntu 11.10 nearly 6 hours with battery power.