The Truth about Intel Atom

[Dobby]

So does everyone remember those netbooks that came out? Yea those mini laptops which werent good for much, except the internet?

Well technology is amazing. Today, I downloaded, played DOD: Source on my Kocaso W1010 Smart Tablet PC.

So it's essentially a tablet with a packaged keyboard/mousepad setup. Also have a usb-adapted wireless mouse. DoD runs on High settings excellent. FPS is increased beyond that of a Pentium. My system runs on Windows 10[It's ok, prefer XP or 7].

I asked earlier if it were possible to play these games on this smart tablet, of course to which the typical "google" answer came up: No, it won't work or you'll get terrible FPS and it will be unplayable. Maybe so, Maybe not.

This bad toy is using the Bay Trail GPU chipset, and it's quite amazing. I'm not playing Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 29 yet, but hey it's still amazing. Since it is Windows, and not Android, this thing is quite amazing.

What is the point of this thread?

To promote the idea you don't need a 1200 dollar gaming machine in your home, if you don't spend your entire life on a game. I do many things, one of which is play games. It seems anything along the timeframe of 2013 and prior, will run smooth. I could not be happier with the quality result of this PC. If you're on a budget, and you need to play your games, get yourself one of these. They're relatively inexpensive, if I'm not mistaken, as I didn't purchase it, and it does EVERYTHING a regular pc does, except play CD/DVD without an external drive. Considering how lightweight it is, and how portable it is, I could get stranded at an airport and play on my lap no problems. And then simply fold up and get on the plane no issues.

Just to fight the propaganda that Tablets don't game well. This tablet fools me.

[zombie cat]

what does "beyond that of a pentium" mean?

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Still waste of money for a gamer. Cause you won't play one or two indie games for years if you are a real gamer.
Honestly you can be fine with a 700 dollar machine for long years, no need go 4 digit. Tablets don't play well if it comes to games like Witcher 3 or Skyrim. Thats a matter of fact.

[Seven7]

false conclusions
that a weak atom is sufficient for games 6-10 years ago does NOT mean that it will replace a gaming PC for modern games
quality of the code and optimization for the last 10 years fell 10,000 times - the programmers of the old school who understood how hardware & software works, - went to retirement / died
a new generation has come that use the frameworks of frameworks for writing "crutches"
drivers and OS write the same coders as a result of 90% of the resources of modern PC is spent on the execution of "crutches"

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Yupp. From that pointview the cheapo MediaTek quadcore of my Huawei phone would my more powerful as the former high-end CPUs. While it obviously isn't.
They have completly different purprose.

[upcoast]

Ya but can it play the Crysis series?

[PepuroniPeetsa]

I'm impressed at how the Atom is performing better than some of these Intel Celeron laptops.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Sorry Mr. Leat, you don't have any modern games in your account, or anything that is remotely demmanding on hardware. You can't judge the entire gaming world just by playing couple of 10 years old SOURCE engine games.
DOD is a 12 years old PS2 game. No wonder it runs fine on any PC, even intel HD graphics is more powerfull than PS2.

And sorry, you are wrong about 2013 games, Your Atom won't be able to even Start Games like Assassin'sCreed 4, Metro Last Light, Crysis 3, Sleeping Dogs, etc. all are 2012-13 games.

intel Atom is only good for upto year 2007-08 games, on Low settings. Because that is the end of PS2 Era.
From year 2008, PS3 Era starts, and games are optimized for 5 times more powerfull hardwares.

[vadim]

Origineel geplaatst door Zach:

I'm impressed at how the Atom is performing better than some of these Intel Celeron laptops.

Depends on Celeron. If Celeron is Atom-based then yes. One Atom could be better than other. Fairly obvious.

[Dobby]

Exactly. Gaming isn't a trend. It isn't about staying current. That's trendy, that's a lifestyle choice. In the world of Gaming, playing games on Atari 2600 and up[through the years of every console every platform] is considered fun to enjoy. You can't expect a tablet to run games like a desktop machine, the cpu's and gpu cards are incredibly higher than what a tablet is designed for.

However, it is in the world of Gaming, still true to the fact that age has NO impact on the amount of fun a game is. I get on DoD: Source and play with tons of people on full servers, voice chatting and having a great time.

The problem with the propaganda here, and much of it, is that you have to have intense graphics and insane realism to have an enjoyable game.

That, is simply an opinion, and considering that the fact that people still own and will play the games in their library, thus the fact of gaming.

It is your choice to play the most modern games, or be content and happy with what you have. I would love to play some new games, but it is not about that.

I may have been wrong about game years, but it actually plays them on high settings well. Low resolution because it is not an official GPU, but it does have a dedicated 1GB DDR3 RAM to the GPU, and has DirectX 10, also has a quad core CPU, 1.33Ghz average and 1.8Ghz per core, haven't attempted an overclock, but if possible to adjust GPU attributes via the BIOS, perhaps it could be made better. But no it won't play Crysis I don't think, maybe the first one.

But bro is right, I called the wrong years.

[MancSoulja]

Origineel geplaatst door Zach:

I'm impressed at how the Atom is performing better than some of these Intel Celeron laptops.

Quallcomm are miles ahead of Intel in the mobile space. Now Windows 10 supports ARM, There's really no reason to settle for an Atom.

[John Doe]

It won't play any Crysis. Atom has always been junk, even back in 09. That was why it died. I had a Lenovo tablet that had it and it lagged even on that Android.

A $700 PC with an RX 570 is like 10 times stronger than the Atom, and will run modern games decently.

Just because it ran DoD:S well doesn't mean anything. The whole point of this thread doesn't make any sense.

[tacoshy]

Origineel geplaatst door MancSoulja:

Origineel geplaatst door Zach:

I'm impressed at how the Atom is performing better than some of these Intel Celeron laptops.

Quallcomm are miles ahead of Intel in the mobile space. Now Windows 10 supports ARM, There's really no reason to settle for an Atom.

yup current Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 is really close in benchmarks to the 1st Gen. i5. It beating all older consumers CPU's...
Really hard if you remind that the Snapdragon 835 is a cellphone CPU.

[Mossy Snake]

Origineel geplaatst door tacoshy:

Origineel geplaatst door MancSoulja:

Quallcomm are miles ahead of Intel in the mobile space. Now Windows 10 supports ARM, There's really no reason to settle for an Atom.

yup current Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 is really close in benchmarks to the 1st Gen. i5. It beating all older consumers CPU's...
Really hard if you remind that the Snapdragon 835 is a cellphone CPU.

The Apple A10X is almost as fast as a 1st gen locked i7 apparently.

I can only imagine what the Snapdragon 845 and Apple A11 (one more digit and they will get the Athlon curse) will be like performance-wise.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Its Qualcomm the leader in mobile CPUs? My phone has a MediaTek MT6735 and some told me thats the cheap one. Like to compare Samsung and Hynix in RAM.

[MancSoulja]

Origineel geplaatst door Astraea Kisaragi:

Its Qualcomm the leader in mobile CPUs? My phone has a MediaTek MT6735 and some told me thats the cheap one. Like to compare Samsung and Hynix in RAM.

MediaTek is the company that makes the device not the CPU. The CPU in your device is made by ARM-Holdings, a pretty well known semiconductor manufacturer.

They're actually owned by SoftBank which is an enormous Asian telecomms company.