In January, Intel will announce a new range of Atom. And a German site just to test them. The range should include three models, N450 (for netbooks), D410 and D510 (for nettops). These are the last two that were tested.

D410 and D510

Both processors are designed to replace and nettops (respectively) the Atom 230 and 330. The new variety differs from the former on one point: the memory controller and graphics controller are placed in the same package as the CPU. The CPUs themselves are identical, but the frequency increases (slightly): Pass 1.6GHz bus 533 MHz to 1.66 GHz 667 MHz bus. Memory is now run at 800 MHz (DDR2) and the graphics chip is a GMA 3150, a change (frequency) of the GMA 950.

Slower than the ION

Overall, the test of our colleagues shows that the party is changing bit CPU (the difference is due mainly to the 66 MHz more), and the graphics is faster than the old GMA 950 but it can not compete with the GeForce Integrated NVIDIA platform in the ION. In fact, the GMA 3150 is not a revolution, and the GMA 500 chip "Poulsbo" is technically more interesting example (it decodes HD) even if it is slower. Finally, most interesting point of the platform does not performance (which are, ultimately, totally ridiculous for a processor 2010) but consumption and congestion. While the current platform requires active cooling on the chipset, the news can do without and we pass a three-chip design to a two-chip design.