Legit Processor Reviews
Intel ATOM 230 versus VIA Nano L2100 - Battle of the Mini-ITX Platforms
| Manufacturer: | VIA Technologies, Inc. |
| Product: | Intel Atom Versus The VIA Nano |
| Date: | Fri, Aug 01, 2008 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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Playing HD Media Content
With VIA claiming these boards can playback HD content I thought it would be fun to try it out and see how each platform does using 720P and 1080P video content. I used Microsoft's WMV HD Content Showcase and grabbed the 720p and 1080p versions of the Coral Reef Adventure (IMAX) clip that can be seen above. Both the VIA Nano and Intel Atom systems would play the 720p video, but small stutters were observed from time to time with the Intel Atom system missing more frames. When it came to the 1080p version of the clip neither of the systems could play it at all. I gave our Microsoft XBox 360 HD-DVD player a shot along with our LG Blu-Ray player and neither were able to play 1080P content with the players. When I recently visited Centuar Technologies they showed me a demo with HD video being played, but it was on a 2GHz VIA Nano processor, so 1.8GHz just doesn't cut it.
Looks like the marketing slide below didn't hold true from what I was seeing. I wouldn't call any 1080P playback 'smooth' on either system.
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Page 1 - The Battle of Mini-ITX Platforms
Page 2 - Intel BOXD945GCLF Motherboard Page 3 - Intel BOXD945GCLF BIOS Page 4 - The Via Nano Reference Motherboard Page 5 - The Test Systems Page 6 - HD Tune v3.10 Page 7 - Sandra XII SP2C Page 8 - PCMark Vantage Page 9 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2 Page 10 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25 Page 11 - Cinebench R9.5 Page 12 - Futuremark 3DMark06 - CPU Page 13 - Playing HD Media Content Page 14 - Power Consumption and Final Thoughs |
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