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Asus Eee 1000H – Too big to be small, yet too small to be big - Benchmark - Continued

Wednesday, 29 October 2008 09:03 Nikolaj Grundtvig

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Article Index
Asus Eee 1000H – Too big to be small, yet too small to be big
Specifications
Package contents
Physical aspects
Physical aspects - Continued
Benchmark
Benchmark - Continued
3DMark, PcMark05
Gaming
Conclusion
All Pages

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The processor

The Eee 1000H comes with Intel’s newest Atom N270 processor, a low watt processor – but do you also get a lot of horsepower? We take a closer look at how it performs in the machine below. We can see that the internal L2 Cache is on 512 KB, and that the processor runs with 533 MHz FSB at 1.6 GHz.

SuperPi:

Super Pi calculates the number PI with 1 million decimals. The result is a time in seconds, meaning that the lower the number, the better. The PI can be used for direct comparison with other laptops that have run the same test.

Both machines perform far worse than what we have seen the last year here at Laptop-Review. At the same time though, it’s surprising to see how the 900 MHz slower Celeron in the 1000HD matches the 1.6 GHz Atom processor in the Eee 1000H. The score can be put into context by comparing it with a T9600 based laptop that scores about 16 – and yes, the lower the better!!! The two machines were generally surprisingly equal in performance.

 SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic:

SiSoft Sandras Whetstone and Drystone benchmark tests the processor’s ability to do pure number crunching, which occurs during gaming or different forms of picture editing. The measure is in Mflops (Millions Floating Point Operations Per Second) – the higher, the better.

Looking at results, the difference is 30% in Atom’s favour. I was actually impressed by the performance of Intel’s new Atom processor – here’s lots of processing power. Another reason the Eee 1000H wins might be because of a newer and better chipset.

 SiSoft Sandra CPU Multimedia:

The multimedia test in SiSoft Sandra is calculated on a 2D figure. The output (it/s) is Mandelbrot iterations per second, i.e. the bigger the better.

As could be expected, the results favour the Atom processor again. You get lots of performance here, and I would actually compare the processor with my old 1.6 GHz Dothan in my work computer.

RAM SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwith

The Eee 1000H comes with 1 GB DDR2 RAM that runs 667MHz, with the following timings: 4,4,4,12,16.

All of the 1 GB is situated in one rod.

2 GB is traditionally recommended on most new Windows 32 Bit based platforms, but you can easily upgrade the Eee to 2 GB.   

Sisoft Sandras Memory Bandwidth benchmark is used to measure the speed of the RAM – the higher the value, the better.

The result gives the Asus Eee 1000H an advantage over the 1000HD, though we should adjusts our results for the 1000H’s newer chipset and the 1000HD’s extra 1 GB RAM (which does not appear to be utilized to its full potential).

 Hard drive performance - SiSoft Sandra Hard Drive Read

Sisoft Sandras hard drive test module is used to measure the performance of the hard drive. Sisoft Sandra runs a number of tests on the surface of
the hard drive and calculates the average reading speed.

The biggest surprise here was that the hard drive in the Eee 1000 HD – just a standard 2.5” 5400rpm hard drive from Seagates Momentus 5400.3 series – beat all previous records in 2.5” tests I’ve run!!! This negligible 80GB can run fast it seems, almost twice as fast than the seemingly identical hard drive in the Eee 1000H (which does reasonably well in any case). I do not pretend to understand why this is so, but you should probably expect performance of the 1000H to be the same for both models.

The results from HDTach confirm the picture painted by SiSoft Sandra: the hard drive in the Eee 1000H performs below average for a 5400rpm Sata 2.5” drive. Like RAM, the hard drive in a laptop is one of the few remaining bottlenecks that keep laptops from reaching the same level of performance as desktops.
 