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Samsung NC10 - For the man on the road - Benchmark

Friday, 15 May 2009 13:34 Mads D.

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Article Index
Samsung NC10 - For the man on the road
Specifications
Package contents
Build & Design
Build & Design continued
Special features
Benchmark
Benchmark continued
Conclusion
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Benchmark

Comparison
The computer is pitted against the ASUS Eee 1000H and the Acer Aspire One A150, two computers in much the same category as the Samsung NC10.

Asus Eee 1000H specifications:
-    Intel Atom, N270, 1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB
-    Intel i945GME, 82801GHM ICH7-M/U Southbridge
-    1.024MB DDR2, PC5300 RAM, 667MHz, ASint Technology module
-    Intel i945GME, with 8MB DDR2 RAM
-    160GB HDD, 2.5" SATA, 8MB cache, 5400RPM
-    10", WSGA TFT, resolution of 1024x600
-    Realtek High Definition chipset, 24Bit stereo compatible
-    6 Cells, 6600mAh
-    Windows XP Home Edition

The price of this is about £270 and you can read more about it here:
http://www.laptop-review.eu/

Acer Aspire One A150 specifications:
-    Intel® Atom N280 1.6Ghz
-    Intel® GM45 Express-chipset
-    1x1GB DDR2
-    160GB 5400rpm
-    10.1" LED CrystalBrite
-    GMA 959 – shared
-    6 cell Li-Ion
-    Windows® XP Home

The price starts at around £170 for the Linux edition. You can read more about it here:
http://www.laptop-review.eu/

Boot & out of standby times

Boot and out of standby times are measured from when the power button is pressed and the Windows desktop appears.

As shown by the graph, the Samsung NC10 starts up in about 25 seconds, which is very fast indeed. The ASUS Eee keeps up well with 26 seconds, but the Acer Aspire One takes a whopping 37/38 seconds.

When it comes to getting out of standby, the NC10 takes only 3-4 seconds where the competitors take 8-9 and 14-16 seconds, which is quite a long time.

Battery life

Battery-eater Pro 2,70 is used to measure the battery life.

Idle test settings: fixed clock frequency of 800 MHz, brightness 1/8, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi on.
Classic test settings: varying clock frequency between 800 MHz and 1600 MHz, brightness 8/8, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi on.

In order to adjust performance with respect to the battery life, a program called "Samsung Battery Manager 2.0" is included, which works a bit like Window Vista's power profiles. This function has been employed for these benchmarks.

As shown by the graph, the Samsung NC10 can last for up to 6 hours and 36 minutes, the ASUS Eee slightly less, and the Aspire One about 40 minutes more than the competition.

Processor

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 number can be used for direct comparison with other laptops that have run the same test.

As can be seen, the Aspire One wins by 4-5 seconds. This is because the Aspire One is equipped with the Intel Atom 280 processor whereas the others only have the Atom 270, which runs with a slightly lower FSB.

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.

In the Whetstone benchmark we can clearly see the Aspire One taking off again, whereas the Eee and NC10 score slightly lower.

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.

Again we see the Aspire taking off, and the difference is quite large as shown by the graph. Again the Eee and NC10 fall behind.