I've not really thought about processing power (recently everything has had more than enough for most of what I do) since I had an atom based aspire one 5 years ago.
The new macbook and the new surface have me interested again. From what I've read the Core M is good enough most of the time for most people, but it struggles with long periods of intensive action. Right now I have a surface pro 3 streaming to a chromecast doing on the fly transcoding from an .avi file. Watching the task manager the cpu is floating around 10-12% usage at about 0.8-1.2GHz (depending on the scene) with the odd spike up to max every 15 seconds or so. This is something my old Tegra3 Nexus 7 can just about cope with in short bursts so we're around the kind of real world level that starts to become an issue.
Is a Broadwell Core M running at 1.1GHz going to have comperable performance to a Broadwell Core i5 running at 1.1GHz? If not, what causes the differences? How will an Atom x7 compare?
The new macbook and the new surface have me interested again. From what I've read the Core M is good enough most of the time for most people, but it struggles with long periods of intensive action. Right now I have a surface pro 3 streaming to a chromecast doing on the fly transcoding from an .avi file. Watching the task manager the cpu is floating around 10-12% usage at about 0.8-1.2GHz (depending on the scene) with the odd spike up to max every 15 seconds or so. This is something my old Tegra3 Nexus 7 can just about cope with in short bursts so we're around the kind of real world level that starts to become an issue.
Is a Broadwell Core M running at 1.1GHz going to have comperable performance to a Broadwell Core i5 running at 1.1GHz? If not, what causes the differences? How will an Atom x7 compare?