dave Premium Member join:2000-05-04 not in ohio 1 edit |
dave
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2015-Jan-3 7:59 am
It's right there in the second article: 2 years between release dates.
(Damn, is that web site a cess-pool of adverts and poor layout)
Though I wouldn't be calling the Atom motherboard a 'desktop' system. I have something similar that I use for an HTPC, for which it is perfectly adequate. It's not powerful enough for a reasonable desktop system though.
CPU speed is not the first concern when choosing a processor, though: CPU architecture is. Atom is x86-ccompatible, ARM is ARM. x86 comes with a lot of historical baggage, probably inflating the transistor budget. But if you want to run a lot of existing software, x86 is what you're stuck with.
But note that one is not being reported 'faster' than the other in any absolute sense. It is faster running GeekBench. No-one buys computers to run GeekBench. The applicability of the result thus depends on how well GeekBench maps to your intended usage. |