News Asus launches Geode-based Eee

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2010/09/07/asus-launches-geode-based-eee/1

 

I guess this isn't that much of a step back, given AMD is still releasing K8s.

 

With 130nm manufacturing process? It's definitely a step back, especially given that my old socket 939 Athlon was 90nm IIRC

 

I think its a good idea to have AMD netbooks as well, but not a good idea to use this processor. wait for the new range next time asus?

 

I suppose the £100 question is... How much? If it was V cheap it might be worth it for low income households or the like.

 

While I'm all for AMD getting into netbooks and ultraportables in a competitive sense, their mobile products to date have run hotter and power hungry compared with the Intel equivalents. AMD's Congo was pretty disappointing on those fronts and did at least have half-decent 3D graphics performance to differentiate it, but that wasn't really the point - there are several other options for ULV-compatible graphics chipsets but nothing to compete with Intel's mobile CPU dominance. Here's hoping that Bobcat can change that, but I think it's a slim chance.

 

nah bet they were having a clearout, and thought f**k, we still hav 20000 of these things laying around, best get shot of them

 

The sticker price on the link is €328. £270 is too much for what your getting here. Guess they're hoping that they can trade on name alone with this one.

 

With that power draw, I can't see this selling particularly well, 130nm is early P4 era as I recall! Why doesn't Asus wait for Bobcat, rather than effectively giving users the perception that AMD=short battery life?

 

£100 or less and I'd get one, although not for me.

 

Well, I see someone should at least *attempt* to read something about the topic before giving out opinions.
Geode NX 1750 is actually faster than Atom, as it's based on Thoroughbred core so it has a much better FPU unit and has full out-of-order execution. I don't have any Geode based industrial machines atm, but given that Pentium M is exactly twice as fast as Atom and Geode NX series are about 20% slower than Pentium M (clock to clock of course), a 1.4 GHz NX will still be a lot faster than Atom.

 

geode is slower than atom I thought.. for more power- ah yeah there's the benches above makes no sense

 

I could see how the Geode might feel snappier in use though. OOE can make a big difference.

 

It doesn't really make sense does it, The point of netbooks is long battery life (as well as portability) at the expense of performance ultimately. So why would you by a netbook that will only last you 2 hours unless it costs about £150. It makes very little sense unless AMD have a considerable stock of Geode CPU's which they need to sell just to make back some money from them.

Who knows, maybe it could be a freakish success for them

 

Why isn't anyone making netbooks based around the VIA C7s? My fileserver runs on one and it sips power and is dead reliable. Seems like someone is missing the boat here.

 

Is this the pre Nano chip? IIRC HP did do a Netbook based around a VIA CPU. I seem to recall it had dissapointing performance even when compared to the Atom based Netbooks around at the time.

 

Maybe they were just given to Asus by AMD?

I can't think of any other reason to release this now other than they were free. If that was the case then these need to be £100 at the most.

The 2 hour battery life is the bigger killer here regardless of performance. I think we all bought netbooks not expecting them to be performace kings anyway but the portability is one of the main reasons.

 

First of all, clock to clock Geode is faster. NX 1750 at 1.6GHz would be an equivalent to Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 1900+ (actually it's exactly the same core) which scored quite a bit better in Passmark.
And since when synthetic benchmarks represent real world performance? OOE + real FPU mean that system is far more responsive and much better suited for graphics-heavy tasks, so NX 1750 even on stock clock is much faster in Flash, rendering image-heavy websites and even rendering Windows XP UI.

 

i like my explanation better, lol