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Old 03-06-2008, 05:13 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Headlines - NVIDIA strikes back: targets Intel Atom with Tegra SoC

Originally Posted by alsenior View Post
one thing i noticed is that they claim it will be 10x faster than atom but they use 2 different incompatable Architectures. is there some sort of mythical benchmark that i havent heard about that runs on both x86 and risc and gives a reliable metric?
Yes, use Linux, and run `time jobname' on both archs. And assuming nV starts taking Linux seriously, this would make for one hell of an ultra-portable, maybe even revolutionary change in industry accepted architecture.

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