The K800 is active on the Penwell SoC that has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z2460 CPU with 512KB L2 cache. On the GPU ancillary it has the approved and activated PowerVR SGX 540 which has been clocked at a hardly college than accepted 400MHz and dual-channel LPDDR2 memory. The CPU in Penwell is alone a single-core appropriate now but Intel affairs to appear up with dual-core versions later, forth with a faster GPU.
So how does this fresh dent perform? Quite well, actually. Admitting the single-core CPU and the actuality that the K800 was active on Gingerbread, the Intel dent managed to chase accomplished phones like the Galaxy Nexus active ICS and the iPhone 4S in the browser benchmarks. GPU benchmarks, admittedly, weren't as impressive, although it is able abundant to break and encode 1080p30 video.
But what about ability consumption, you ask? Luckily, Intel has taken affliction of that as well. Compared to phones like the iPhone 4S, Galaxy S II, HTC Sensation and the LG Optimus 2x, the Intel advertence handset managed to absorb the atomic bulk of ability in assertive tasks while actuality decidedly lower in some of the others.
Intel's Medfield series processor debuts on the Lenovo K800
It is important to note, however, that admitting the absorbing CPU achievement and lower ability consumption, the Medfield processor is up adjoin rivals that came out aftermost year and are anon to be upgraded. It charcoal to be apparent how able-bodied it endless up adjoin the Cortex A15 and the Qualcomm Krait back they absolution after this year.
Intel has managed to accomplice with two companies for now, one of which is Lenovo and the added is Motorola. Lenovo affairs to barrage the K800 in China by Q2 this year although the Motorola smartphones and tablets active Medfield will alone access by the end of this year.
