GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)


Lets bear in mind that the base score for a 2.4GHz E6750 Core 2 Duo with 2GB of 800MHz DDR2 is 1,000 points. That means these Atom boards are over five times slower (it felt like forever testing them!). The new Atom systems do command a bit of a performance advantage, mostly thanks to their increased FSB and memory performance, but it's hardly a leap forward.

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake


The highly threaded Handbrake test clearly takes advantage of the extra cores on both the dual-core models, offering up an impressive 50 per cent performance improvement for a couple of extra watts. Still, even the fastest D510 offers only 39 per cent the performance of our reference system.

Multi-tasking Performance

Website: MPC-HC
Website: 7-Zip


Both the dual-core Atom boards failed the multi-tasking test due to a recursive error with MPC-HC at the end of the test, however the single core models could complete it generating a result.. eventually. There is absolutely no way any of the boards can heavily multi-task - dual-cores or not - the video was continually choppy and at just a score of around 100, they are ten times slower than our reference system. Atom systems continue to be for extremely simple workloads.