Intel Atom D510: Pine Trail Boosts Performance, Cuts Power

SYSMark 2007 Performance

Our journey starts with SYSMark 2007, the only all-encompassing performance suite in our review today. The idea here is simple: one benchmark to indicate the overall performance of your machine.

Overall performance of the Atom D510 is roughly 12% faster than the Zotac Ion based on the older Atom 330. We're still shy of the overall performance of a low end Celeron, but much better performance than a single core Atom and a definite improvement over the first generation Atom processor.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Performance

To measure performance under Photoshop CS4 we turn to the Retouch Artists’ Speed Test. The test does basic photo editing; there are a couple of color space conversions, many layer creations, color curve adjustment, image and canvas size adjustment, unsharp mask, and finally a gaussian blur performed on the entire image.

The whole process is timed and thanks to the use of Intel's X25-M SSD as our test bed hard drive, performance is far more predictable than back when we used to test on mechanical disks.

Time is reported in seconds and the lower numbers mean better performance. The test is multithreaded and can hit all four cores in a quad-core machine.

Photoshop performance improved by around 13% compared to Ion/Atom 330. Performance is in the range of a very low end Celeron.