Efficiency Analysis: Core i3 Trumps Atom On The Desktop
Atom was designed to be a low-cost, low-power solution, but its value in the desktop space is debatable if you consider performance. We pit the cheapest Core i3 against Intel's Atom on a performance-per-dollar and a per-watt basis to see which is better.
Benchmark Results: Archiving
7-Zip is one of the most efficient archiving tools (check out our article Four Compression and Archiving Tools Compared). The new Atom D510 does well, but it doesn’t stand a chance against the Core i3 system.
The results are similar with WinRAR.
WinZip is single-threaded, but it also requires patience if you want to compress and archive our 650MB data set at best compression.
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