Atom D2550 vs D525

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Primary details

Comparing Atom D525 and Atom D2550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel AtomIntel Atom
Architecture codenamePinetrail (2009−2011)Cedarview (2011−2012)
Release date21 June 2010 (14 years ago)1 November 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$63no data

Detailed specifications

Atom D525 and Atom D2550 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.8 GHz1.86 GHz
Boost clock speed1.83 GHz1.87 GHz
L1 cache64K (per core)64 KB (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die size66 mm266 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C100 °C
Number of transistors176 million176 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Atom D525 and Atom D2550 compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration11
SocketFCBGA559FCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt10 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom D525 and Atom D2550. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)--
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology++
Idle States-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE32 Bit36 Bit

Security technologies

Atom D525 and Atom D2550 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom D525 and Atom D2550 are enumerated here.

VT-d--
VT-x--
VT-ino data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom D525 and Atom D2550. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2, DDR3DDR3
Maximum memory size4 GB4 GB
Max memory channels11
Maximum memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s6.4 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel GMA 3150Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Atom D525 and Atom D2550 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom D525 and Atom D2550.

PCI Express lanesno data4

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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.

Atom D525 402
Atom D2550 409
+1.7%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Atom D525 77
Atom D2550 100
+29.9%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Atom D525 187
Atom D2550 287
+53.5%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 June 2010 1 November 2011
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 10 Watt

Atom D2550 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 40.6% more advanced lithography process, and 30% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Atom D525 and Atom D2550. We've got no test results to judge.


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