ChromeOS Performance Leadership:
The MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 Advantage
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Ryan Shrout
Since its debut in 2009, Google’s ChromeOS has been a strong contender in the lower- to mid-range segments of the laptop market, for general consumers and especially the education and small business sectors. For nearly two decades, ChromeOS’s source of strength has been lower prices, a simple and uncomplicated UX, and an operating system that shares much of its DNA with Android. ChromeOS devices have however suffered from a chronic lack of good and up-to-date hardware, as x86 CPU manufacturers Intel and AMD have consistently only offered low-end and/or last-gen chips for ChromeOS laptop OEMs to use.
That’s changed with MediaTek’s Kompanio Ultra 910, the company’s latest CPU for ChromeOS devices. This chip features modern Arm Cortex CPU cores, fast integrated graphics, and a very capable NPU for AI workloads, all fabbed on TSMC’s cutting-edge 3nm node.
Key Highlights
Provides 33% longer battery life during student workload.
Great performance even when unplugged and running multiple workloads.
Kompanio Ultra 910 Chromebooks are up to
28% quieter than x86 models.
Up to 20% cooler when running content creation workloads.
But don’t underestimate MediaTek’s first foray into PCs; the Kompanio Ultra 910 looks to be a sizeable leap over the CPUs that are currently used for x86-based Chromebooks, particularly in AI, as the MediaTek processor is the only CPU for ChromeOS that supports many of ChromeOS’s new AI features.
In this paper, we’ll be demonstrating the performance and power advantages of the Kompanio Ultra 910 versus the latest x86 processors for ChromeOS. Our testing also focuses on real-world usage in the realms of education, business, and consumer software.
