While IDF 2014 is currently running, it was just a matter of time before we see some of the first benchmarks of Intel's recently announced Core M CPUs designed for fanless tablets and 2-in-1 devices. Based on Broadwell architecture, we now now have some of the first benchmark results for a Core M 5Y70 dual-core chip which was spotted running in a 12.5-inch tablet at IDF 2014.


Spotted and benchmarked by the guys from HotHardware.com, the Core M 5Y70 chips features two Broadwell 64-bit x86 cores, 4MB of L3 cache, dual-channel LPDDR3 memory controller, PCI-Express 3.0 support and a new GPU with 24 Execution Units (EUs) and 192 stream engines.

HotHardware.com managed to run Cinebench R11.5, SunSpider 1.0.2 and 3DMark Ice Storm benchmarks during its hands-on with the 12.5-inch Core M equipped tablet during IDF 2014 and the dual-core Broadwell Core M 5Y70 chip managed to score 17FPS in Cinebench R11.5 GL bench and 2.48 pts for the CPU. This puts the small Core M hgih above any Atom, Pentium or AMD tablet-ready Beema and Mullins APUs. In SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, the same chip gave a score of 142.8, which is also quite higher than any tablet chip so far.




The cherry on top is definitely the Futuremark 3DMark Ice Storm benchmark which shows the real power of Intel's integrated GPU with score of 50,985, which is again much higher than any ultra-mobile chip out there and is pretty much running circles around Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series SoC or Nvidia Tegra K1 chip as well.




Intel's Broadwell architecture certainly has a bright future and hopefully we will see some interesting fanless tablet design-wins for this little chip and even see it in some other devices.



Source: HotHardware.com.