The Intel Atom N550 processor is the first dual core Atom chip built specifically for netbooks. Intel only announced the chip at Computex 2010, and it isn’t out on the retail market yet, but the folks at Notebook Italia got a chance to spend a few minutes with a pre-release Asus netbook with an Atom N550 chip. Theythey ran a simple benchmark to see how the computer stacked up against PCs with several other processors, which you can see in the graph above. In short, the Atom N550 performed very well especially at multithreading capabilities thanks to it’s 2 cores which can run as many as 4 threads simultaneously. Using the file compression app 7Zip’s built-in benchmarking utility, Notebook Italia found that the 1.5GHz Atom N550 was twice as fast as a 1.66 Intel Atom N450 processor. It was also a little faster than systems with Intel Atom 330 and D510 desktop dual core processors. So great news – let’s get those dual core netbooks on the street!
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Dual Core Intel Atom N550 Netbook Processor Benchmarked
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