Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
Certainly. Bobcat isn't living at all to the hype you and others have created. Where is the sub 1w CPU that informal was bragging about ?

Atom has other weakpoints, but it isn't anything more than Intel claimed to be. Intel sucks at GPUs, they are weak, but nowhere did they brag about playing games on Atom. The message constantly revolved around surfing the web and light office stuff. IMO, they delivered that.

OTOH, they are utterly incapable of making inroads into smartphones. And that is a major fail since mids and netbooks will be replaced by smartphones. They are a niche with a limited lifespan. Atom might be way lower power than Bobcat, but even so it is 3-4x higher than ARM chips ( altough it also offers more performance ). Again, same stuff as with Bobcat : it doesn't matter it has more performance if you can't stuck it in the right form factor.



Could be. But they are trying to cut corners with the ill fated Larrabee ( altough they have some projects to use the GMAs as accelerators with OpenCL and others ). Basically, Intel is saying : "screw the GPU as the accelerator. We will morph it in the CPU." Secondly, AMD has yet to prove something with Fusion ( which is what 3 years late ? ). Everything is powerpoint at the moment.
Whether they will manage it or not is another discussion and off-topic to this thread.
I bolded the relevant part.

Savantu, the CPU in Ontario is really low power, but ontario is CPU+Northbridge+GPU. Give me the power consumption of Atom + Northbridge + integrated GPU and then compare the performance of Ontario vs Atom.

Ontario is close to a SOC design, while Atom is the old way. Learn to make a proper comparison.