Atom N2600: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Atom N2600 sales 1 December 2011 at a recommended price of $47. This is a Cedarview-M architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1600 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA559 processor with a TDP of 3.5 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
General info
Atom N2600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Intel Atom | |
| Architecture codename | Cedarview-M (2011−2012) | |
| Release date | 1 December 2011 (12 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $47 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $251 (5.3x MSRP) | of 17802 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
Technical specs
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 | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 1.6 GHz | of 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 1.6 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 786432 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 66 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 176 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Atom N2600 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 8160M) |
| Socket | FCBGA559 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 3.5 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Atom N2600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3 | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | - | |
| Status | Discontinued |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | |
| EDB | + |
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 N2600's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | |
| Maximum memory size | 2.44 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 1 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Atom N2600.
| Integrated graphics card | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Atom N2600. Overall benchmark performance 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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.
Benchmark coverage: 20%
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
3DMark06 CPU
3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
x264 encoding pass 1
x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
x264 encoding pass 2
x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
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