X-Scale processor beat up by smaller orphan processors
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday October 1, 2002 @01:44AM
from the Faster-is-not-always-faster dept.
Matthew writes: Intel’s new 400MHz X-scale processor was accosted yesterday while walking to school in a Toshiba i740 PDA. An older, slower iPaq 3600, running the previous generation ARM processor at a mere 206 MHz, demanded the X-scale’s lunch money.
Challenged to a benchmark by calculating chess moves using a common chess application for the PocketPC, the X-scale was able to calculate only 90 percent as many positions in the same period as the older iPaq. Blaming it’s loss on Microsoft’s unwillingness to recompile PocketPC specifically for the X-scale, the x-scale went especially hungry that day, considering that it requires considerably more power than it’s lower clock rate competitor.