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Comment benchmarks released on a Crusoe? (Score 1) 120

Has there been any benchmarks released on a Crusoe based system that can be directly compared with another system? Seems to me that most all the benchmarks I've seen thus far are based on the energy per instruction argument, and why Crusoe performs better per unit energy consumed. What I haven't seen are system level benchmarks that compares one against the other. I seem to recall that Transmeta argues that this is the wrong way to compare their chips, since mobile applications don't need the bleeding edge speed, so much as a long battery life.. However, there has to be some metric to evaluate them, so if they only perform like a "400 MHz P3", even if the power draw is on par with a "200 Mhz P3", there might still be limited market acceptance. From what I understand, the power draw of the CPU on a notebook accounts for less than 1/3 of the total draw by the notebook, so even if Crusoe consumes 0.0W, the total for the notebook is still quite high. The big TFT screens that Corporate America favors just sucks up all sorts of power. Futuristic wearable computers with head mounted displays might consume less power, and web pads etc would be interesting for Crusoe to attack. The problem here is that they need to develope the market fast before they run out of funding.

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