3-10-2011 review by xbitlabs

The AMD Brazos seems to be the best option available for tiny and power-efficient stationary and mobile computers. AMD took a long time to develop its energy-efficient microarchitecture and postponed it a number of times. As a result, the company is late to the nettop and netbook boom but finally has a really competitive solution. Without a doubt, the Brazos platform is superior to other available platforms of this class. It is a kind of a new Athlon XP among energy-efficient processors. AMD has proved its engineering ability with this release, which looks like a promising symptom after all the recent failures.

Compared To:

Atom 330, D525.

Test Setup:

• Mainboard : MSI E350IS-E45
• Memory : 4GB DDR3-1333MHz Kingston KHX1600C8D3K2/4GX
• posMicrosoft Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate 64 bit
• PSU : Tagan TG880-U33II 880 Watt
• SSD : Kingston SNVP325-S2/128GB.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, Civilization 5, F1 2010, Far Cry 2, Fritz Chess Bench, H.264 Playback, H.A.W.X 2, Internet Applications, iTunes Encoding Test, PC mark vantage x64, Peacekeeper, Photoshp CS5, Power Consumption, Sisoft Sandra, StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty, Trackmania NF, WebVizBench, Winrar, x264 HD, Youtube Playback.