Acer Aspire Revo SFF NVIDIA Ion PC

Name: Acer Aspire Revo SFF NVIDIA Ion PC - Page 5
Brand: Acer

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 09:01 AM EDT

We began our benchmark testing with SiSoftware's SANDRA XII, the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. We ran four of the built-in subsystem tests that partially comprise the SANDRA 2009 test suite with the Ion-based Acer Aspire Revo (CPU Arithmetic, CPU Multimedia, Memory Bandwidth, and the Disk Storage tests). All of the scores reported below were taken with the Revo's Atom processor running at its default clock speed of 1.6GHz, with 2GB of DDR2-800 system memory and HyperThreading enabled.

Preliminary Testing with SiSoft SANDRA 2009

Synthetic Benchmarks

The Acer Aspire Revo's performance fell right in-line with expectations. In the purely CPU bound tests, the system performed right on par with the similarly equipped Ion reference platform and netbooks. The Revo performed somewhat lower in the memory bandwidth test than NVIDIA's reference platform, however, we somewhat expected this result considering the system was equipped with lower-clocked DDR2 memory as opposed to the reference system's DDR3-1066.

Tags: SFF, Atom, Acer, HTPC, Revo

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com