Early Cherry Trail Benchmarks Disappoint
Intel Cherry Trail Atom Chips will Power Windows and Android TabletsCherry
Trail shows only marginal improvement over predecessor in leaked benchmarks
Intel began shipping its new Cherry Trail Atom chips to its partners in the
first week of January and now we have got our first benchmark scores. If you
were expecting the 5th generation Atom chips to be a huge improvement over
current-generation tablet SoCs (systems on chip), you are in for a bit of a
shock.
The leaked Geekbench scores are of an Intel Atom x7-Z8700 Cherry Trail
processor. The 1.60GHz quad-core chip managed single-core and multi-core
scores of 990 and 3451, respectively. To put things into perspective, the
multi-core score amounts to a marginal improvement over the current-gen Atom
Z3795’s score of 3193. Believe it or not, the single-core performance is
actually worse, with the Bay Trail part coming out on top with a score of
995.
With Cherry Trail being the “tick” to Bay Trail’s “tock” — or, for
those of you don't speak Intel, the 14nm die shrink of Bay Trail — a huge
leap in CPU performance was never on the cards to begin with, but an
improvement of around eight percent is unimpressive no matter how you look
at it.
Hopefully, the other chips will fare a lot better. And let’s hope there are
substantial improvements when it comes to power consumption and graphics.
