Intel Silvermont(Next-gen OOE Atom)

Jaguar's numbers are really surprising
AESENC/DEC 3 cycles latency (5 according to Agner Fog) 1 cycle throughput. Double instruction.
AESIMC/KEYGENASSIT 2 cycles latency 1 cycle throughput. Single instruction
 
Jaguar's numbers are really surprising
AESENC/DEC 3 cycles latency (5 according to Agner Fog) 1 cycle throughput. Double instruction.
AESIMC/KEYGENASSIT 2 cycles latency 1 cycle throughput. Single instruction
Yes that's quite nice. And the PCLMULQDQ too has (like ordinary simd muls on jaguar) ultra-low latency and throughput of 1! AESKEYGENASSIST would be like 10 times faster than on haswell according to Agner's data (not sure why intel has published so vastly different figures for that one). But even without considering this one, the encryption instructions on jaguar actually look better than on haswell even, and of course much better than on silvermont.
 
GPU performance of their top solution is about the same as the Adreno 320 in the Snapdragon 600.

Good enough for Android games, useless for Windows games. Unless someone wants to play 10 year-old games in a tablet.

Speaking of tablets, there are at least two tablets officially announced with Silvermont: a 8" Dell and a 10" Asus.
 
http://techreport.com/review/25329/intel-atom-z3000-bay-trail-soc-revealed
Jaguar never stood a chance against Silvermont. Silvermont is a slam dunk win for Intel.
As far as I can tell from these benches, Jaguar would be quite a match for this chip in performance if it would support turbo, IPC indeed seems a bit higher on Jaguar (based on the assumption that most likely silvermont is running closer to 2.4Ghz rather than 1.4Ghz in most of the tests). Granted it still wouldn't be a match in perf/w but at least if AMD would have implemented some turbo (say 1.5Ghz up to 2Ghz) it wouldn't look like it drew much more power while still being slower...
 
EDIT
As a side note it is clear that Intel did not want ARM to get their hand on that micro server market. They managed to ship something 1 years ahead of the competition (ARM based on ARM V8).
Sorry for the late reply. We moved mountains to make it happen.
 
Been working with Baytrail chips for the most of the year and was actually sufficiently impressed that I went out and bought an ASUS Transformer Book T100 last week - my first ever tablet and the first time I've bought a laptop in about 7 years!

Spent the weekend and this week doing some testing with it, mostly in games, and have posted up some videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BrueComputing

Graphics performance is somewhere in-line with the 1st-gen Core i3/i5 stuff, which isn't too bad considering this is a 2W SDP part. Done some testing against Temash chips and they do edge it in graphics benchmarks, but are 8W TDP parts.

In the T100 it's the first Windows tablet I've felt it's worth owning in terms of price/performance/usefulness.
 
Truecrypt results from my Dell Venue 8 Pro with Atom Z3740D. Seemed like some here might be interested in these results. I can't find an OpenSSL build for Windows with AES-NI unfortunately.


edit - I suppose this info is readily available now that I think more about it.... TR has Truecrypt results.
 
Been working with Baytrail chips for the most of the year and was actually sufficiently impressed that I went out and bought an ASUS Transformer Book T100 last week - my first ever tablet and the first time I've bought a laptop in about 7 years!

Spent the weekend and this week doing some testing with it, mostly in games, and have posted up some videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BrueComputing

Graphics performance is somewhere in-line with the 1st-gen Core i3/i5 stuff, which isn't too bad considering this is a 2W SDP part. Done some testing against Temash chips and they do edge it in graphics benchmarks, but are 8W TDP parts.

In the T100 it's the first Windows tablet I've felt it's worth owning in terms of price/performance/usefulness.

the 2W SDP vs 8W TDP is a skewed comparison, the smaller tablet can draw ~11W under load http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Asus-Transformer-Book-T100TA-C1-GR-Convertible.106219.0.html

while the larger notebook with amd temash uses only ~13W under load http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Samsung-ATIV-Book-9-Lite-905S3G-K01DE-Subnotebook.106346.0.html

just a few W more and there are many variables that could factor in on power consumption, however it seems that atom stays closer to idle under normal usage while amd is within the upperbound hence lower idle and usage numbers for temash compared to baytrail.
 
I thought I'd post and say that it looks like OpenSSL for Windows does have AES-NI support.
 
It does support it. It's just that I was confused by some documentation about using it on Linux that didn't work with the Windows build I have. My Venue 8 Pro scores:

openssl speed -evp aes128
zoom.
Code:
OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
built on: Mon Feb 11 16:33:34 2013
options:bn(64,32) rc4(8x,mmx) des(idx,cisc,2,long) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx) 
compiler: cl -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T  /MD /Ox /O2 /Ob2 -DOPENSSL_THREADS  -DDSO_WIN32 -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T -W3 -Gs0 -GF -Gy -nologo -DOPENSSL_SYSNAME_WIN32 -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DL_ENDIAN -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DOPENSSL_USE_APPLINK -I. -DOPENSSL_NO_RC5 -DOPENSSL_NO_MD2 -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -DOPENSSL_NO_JPAKE -DOPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE    
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
aes-128-cbc     164791.16k   249379.82k   294641.11k   311612.47k   317188.81k
openssl speed aes-128-cbc
not using AESNI
Code:
OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
built on: Mon Feb 11 16:33:34 2013
options:bn(64,32) rc4(8x,mmx) des(idx,cisc,2,long) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx) 
compiler: cl -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T  /MD /Ox /O2 /Ob2 -DOPENSSL_THREADS  -DDSO_WIN32 -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T -W3 -Gs0 -GF -Gy -nologo -DOPENSSL_SYSNAME_WIN32 -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DL_ENDIAN -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DOPENSSL_USE_APPLINK -I. -DOPENSSL_NO_RC5 -DOPENSSL_NO_MD2 -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -DOPENSSL_NO_JPAKE -DOPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE    
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
aes-128 cbc      32189.81k    36132.41k    37676.07k    72772.13k    74997.63k
 
Had a play with a Venue 11 Pro today and compared it to the T100 in 3DMark to see how the Z3740 stacks up vs. Z3770.


The Z3740 actually comes out 11% faster in graphics performance, Z3770 29% faster in the CPU Physics test.

I'd wager that it is down to how the power usage is balanced on the SoC - the upper power and GPU clock limits are the same for both chips but the higher base clock on the Z3770 is presumably leaving less power headroom for the GPU to utilise...
 
Wow, great test! I'd rather have the 11% higher GPU, and I'm sure a lot of other people probably feel the same. Thanks for posting the results.
 
The Venue 8 Pro BIOS has a stunning load of settings if you access it through the Win8 advanced boot, UEFI settings menu. Lots of IGP settings are available including a graphics boost option that is disabled by default.

I haven't bothered with benchmarks but have played some games. I have found it to run some quite well. Guild Wars and Defense Grid for example. SupCom2 is too slow though. It has interesting performance characteristics. Low bandwidth and fillrate but the ALU capability isn't bad for what it is. I find it totally amazing for a 2W SOC.
 
Had a play with a Venue 11 Pro today and compared it to the T100 in 3DMark to see how the Z3740 stacks up vs. Z3770.


The Z3740 actually comes out 11% faster in graphics performance, Z3770 29% faster in the CPU Physics test.

I'd wager that it is down to how the power usage is balanced on the SoC - the upper power and GPU clock limits are the same for both chips but the higher base clock on the Z3770 is presumably leaving less power headroom for the GPU to utilise...

Interesting. I was actually considering the Dell Venue 11 Pro, but from pretty much everything I've read the Synaptics digitizer pen solution is significant worse than the Wacom pen digitizer. /sigh.

Too bad this doesn't come with a Wacom digitizer.

Regards,
SB
 
The Venue 8 Pro BIOS has a stunning load of settings if you access it through the Win8 advanced boot, UEFI settings menu. Lots of IGP settings are available including a graphics boost option that is disabled by default.

I haven't bothered with benchmarks but have played some games. I have found it to run some quite well. Guild Wars and Defense Grid for example. SupCom2 is too slow though. It has interesting performance characteristics. Low bandwidth and fillrate but the ALU capability isn't bad for what it is. I find it totally amazing for a 2W SOC.
I always consider it like a ~5W chip or so (just get away with that "scenario design power" please...).
I dunno though I actually think it's the opposite, the graphics has high bandwidth for that class but low ALU capacity (the bandwidth exceeds that of half of AMDs discrete mobile gpu lineup (which says a lot about that lineup...) whereas those 4 EUs aren't a whole lot. A Haswell GT3 (without edram) part will have 1.5 times the bandwidth but 10 times the EUs...
I thought that intel improved the power distribution scheme some time ago to give more preference to the gpu part a while ago (Ivy Bridge?), but it's interesting that it seems the nominally slower part can still be faster due to that. Though if you compare different systems, you need to be really careful, since just like their big brothers these chips all have configurable TDP (plus configurable turbo).
 
The Venue 8 Pro BIOS has a stunning load of settings if you access it through the Win8 advanced boot, UEFI settings menu. Lots of IGP settings are available including a graphics boost option that is disabled by default.

Took a look on the Venue 11 Pro this morning, no IGP settings that I can see other than Screen Brightness.

There is an option to "Enable Turboboost\x99" which is set to Enabled by default - "Allows the Intel Turbo driver to increase the performance of the CPU OR graphics processor."
 
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