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**chujwduperjadzi** · 04-05-2010, 11:12 PM

Because it's a lower power design with less functional units at slower clock speeds.

The 1GHz A4 CPU is rated at 2000 DMIPS (Dhrystone Million Instructions per Second - a synthetic integer computation benchmark). A 2GHz Atom is rated at 5000 DMIPs per core (Netbooks only have 1 core, usually)

04-05-2010, 11:12 PM	#2
chujwduperjadzi Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	Because it's a lower power design with less functional units at slower clock speeds. The 1GHz A4 CPU is rated at 2000 DMIPS (Dhrystone Million Instructions per Second - a synthetic integer computation benchmark). A 2GHz Atom is rated at 5000 DMIPs per core (Netbooks only have 1 core, usually)
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