Horse Armour
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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
Single threaded integer:
Single threaded floating point :
Mozilla Kraken Benchmark:
http://anandtech.com/show/7314/intel-baytrail-preview-intel-atom-z3770-tested
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
Single threaded integer:
Single threaded floating point :
Mozilla Kraken Benchmark:
http://anandtech.com/show/7314/intel-baytrail-preview-intel-atom-z3770-tested