Asus EeeBox PC EB1501P Review
Futuremark 3DMark 06 & PCMark Vantage
To assess the performance of the Asus EeeBox PC EB1501P, we pitted it against a number of netbook systems based on Intel Atom processor designs, including the first generation of NVIDIA's Ion platform, as well as standard Atom solutions. We also included numbers from the Zotac ZBox HD-ID34 and ZBox HD-ID11. Still, the performance figures we've provided are presented for a frame of reference more than anything else. As such these test metrics should not be considered "apples to apples" comparisons, but rather a general correlation of how the next-gen Ion-based EeeBox PC EB1501P will perform versus similar, low power platforms in its peer group.
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Asus EeeBox PC EB1501P |
Zotac ZBox HD-ID34 |
Zotac ZBox HD-ID11 |
Lenovo ThinkPad X100e |
Asus Eee PC 1215N |
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The Futuremark 3DMark06 CPU benchmark consists of tests that use the CPU to render 3D scenes, rather than the GPU. It runs several threads simultaneously and is designed to utilize multiple processor cores.
The Asus EeeBox PC EB1501P has very similar specs as the Zotac ZBox HD-IS34 and the Asus Eee PC 1215N. Not surprisingly, all three systems scored very similarly on all of the 3DMark06 tests, proving that although we have two nettops and one netbook in the mix, the Atom D525 processor and Ion 2 graphics perform the same regardless of form factor.
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We ran the system through Futuremark’s latest system performance metric, PCMark Vantage. This benchmark suite creates a host of different usage scenarios to simulate different types of workloads including High Definition video and movie playback and manipulation, gaming, image editing and manipulation, music compression, communications, and productivity. We like the fact that most of the tests are multi-threaded as well, in order to exploit the additional resources offered by multi-core processors.
In this test, the EeeBox PC EB1501P also produced similar numbers to the similarly configured Zotac ZBox HD-IS34 and the Asus Eee PC 1215N. You can also see the difference between the new Atom D525 and a couple of the older Atom processors.
