While the performance is similar in multi-threaded application (except WinRAR where AMD is miles ahead) the AMD E-350 shines in the single-threaded department. The blu-ray test was done with a file on the SDD, so using a real drive would add about 7-8W. The Zotac board draws 1.7W when switched off, which is dissapointing, while the ASRock ION box did the correct thing and does not use any energy at all. In the power consumption department the old Atom/ION combination still leads slightly but just about 4W more for either Atom D525+ION2 and E-350 are not that bad either. Any Intel desktop CPU is more efficient and of course ARM is also miles ahead. The efficency of both the Intel Atom and the AMD E-350 are dissapointing. First, we take a look at power efficiency in Cinebench, meaning under very high and threaded loads. We also removed the WLAN card of the Zotac board, so Zotac has no disadvantage due to an extra card. While the ASRock ION 330HT box is an original one, we used a ITX case with 80W PSU for the E-350 and D525. Of course the comparision with the i3-2100T is unfair, because here we used a Radeon HD6870.īecause the FarCry2 bench did not allow for low settings in DX10, we had to settle for DX9 with Low/Low/Low and the rest of the settings are medium.
In the gaming department the ION2 and the Radeon 6310 are also on par, but only because the ION2 benefits from 512MB of dedicated DDR3 memory. As you will see, especially the single thread performance of the Atom is about half of the E-350, but in multi-threaded applications the performance is quite on par, regardless of the 200MHz higher clock of the Atom. Today we did the same benches as we did in the Sandy Bridge review. The AMD E-350 clocks with 1.6GHz and has a also 2x 512kB L2 cache. The Atom D525 is clocked at 1.8GHz, has 2x 512kB 2nd level cache and both CPU cores are now on one die.
While that may not be a problem for the majority of applications, the 500MHz clock also limits the UVD3 engine. The internal graphics of the E-350 which is called Radeon 6310, consists of 80 cores but does only clock with 500MHz. To compensate for that, all boards include 512MB DDR3 memory, so the GPU has not go via the chipset to access memory which would hurt the performance. The downside of any ION2 is the connection just with one PCIe x1 lane to the chipset, so limiting the bandwidth to a mere 250MB/s. It's the same chip found on the G210 with 16 shaders and clocks with 535MHz for the core and 1230MHz for the shaders. Today we got an Zotac ITXION-S which uses an Atom D525 and an ION2. More importantly we had no time to get an Intel D525 board with ION2, which would be a more serious match instead of the Atom 330+ION we were forced to use.
PLEX SERVER ASROCK ION 330 HT WINDOWS
After our first E-350 Brazos review some of our readers were outraged that we have used Windows XP instead of Windows 7.
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