Intel Atom C5125: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Atom C5125 provides acceptable benchmark performance at 5.04% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX.
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Summary
Intel started Atom C5125 sales 6 June 2022 at a recommended price of $335. This is a Parker Ridge architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 10 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2.8 and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA2106 processor with a TDP of 50 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.
Primary details
Atom C5125 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 1527 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 4.84 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Power efficiency | 4.18 | of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores)) |
| Designer | Intel | |
| Manufacturer | Intel | |
| Architecture codename | Parker Ridge (2022) | |
| Release date | 6 June 2022 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $335 | of 19,000 (Xeon 6788P) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Performance to price scatter graph
Currently popular graphics cards are shown for comparison.
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 8 (Octa-Core) | |
| Threads | 8 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX) |
| Boost clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 96 KB (Xeon 6990E+) |
| L2 cache | 4.5 MB (per module) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 9 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 10 nm | of 1.8 nm (Core Ultra 7 366H) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Atom C5125 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | FCBGA2106 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 500 Watt (EPYC 9755) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Atom C5125. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE4.2 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| QuickAssist | + | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | |
| Idle States | + | |
| GPIO | + | |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | - |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | + | |
| EDB | + | |
| SGX | - |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | + | |
| VT-x | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Atom C5125's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | |
| Maximum memory size | 256 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9654) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Atom C5125.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX) |
| PCI Express lanes | 32 | of 144 (Threadripper PRO 7955WX) |
| USB revision | 2.0, 3.0 | |
| Total number of SATA ports | 16 | |
| Integrated IDE | - | |
| Number of USB ports | 8 | |
| Integrated LAN | - | |
| UART | 3 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Atom C5125. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Atom C5125 is EPYC 8324PN, which is slower by 3% and lower by 15 positions in our ranking.
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