Acer Aspire Revo SFF NVIDIA Ion PC

Name: Acer Aspire Revo SFF NVIDIA Ion PC - Page 6
Brand: Acer

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

We also ran the Acer Aspire Revo through Futuremark’s latest system performance metric built specifically for Windows Vista, PCMark Vantage. PCMark Vantage sets up a host of different usage scenarios to simulate different types of workloads including High Definition TV and movie playback and manipulation, gaming, image editing and manipulation, music compression, communications, and productivity. Most of the tests are multi-threaded as well, so the tests can exploit the additional resources offered by the Atom processor's HT feature. Here we're comparing the Revo to both an Intel Atom reference platform on an Intel D945GCLF motherboard, the NVIDIA Ion reference platform, and the VIA Nano reference platform as well.

Futuremark PCMark Vantage

Simulated Application Performance

Despite being equipped with somewhat slower memory than NVIDIA's Ion reference platform, the Acer Aspire Revo hung right alongside the reference system in our PCMak Vantage testing. Notice, however, the large disparity between the Intel Atom system and the Revo in the Gaming test, where the Revo's Ion graphics processor allows it to surge ahead of Intel's offering.

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