Atom Z510 vs N270

Place in the ranking	3395	3358
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Atom	Intel Atom
Power efficiency	3.41	5.68
Architecture codename	DiamondVille (2008−2009)	Silverthorne (2008−2010)
Release date	2 April 2008 (16 years ago)	2 April 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$44	$20

Detailed specifications

Atom N270 and Atom Z510 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 cores	1 (Single-Core)	1 (Single-Core)
Threads	2	1
Base clock speed	1.6 GHz	1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.1 GHz	1.1 GHz
Bus type	FSB	FSB
Bus rate	533.33 MT/s	400 MT/s
Multiplier	12	11
L1 cache	56 KB	56 KB
L2 cache	512 KB	512 KB
L3 cache	0 KB	0 KB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
Die size	25.9638 mm²	24.18 mm²
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	90 °C
Number of transistors	47 Million	47 Million
64 bit support	-	-
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	0.9V-1.1625V	0.75-1.1V

Compatibility

Information on Atom N270 and Atom Z510 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 configuration	1 (Uniprocessor)	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	PBGA437	PBGA441
Power consumption (TDP)	2.5 Watt	2 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom N270 and Atom Z510. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE, Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3	Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Turbo Boost Technology	-	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	-
Idle States	-	+
Thermal Monitoring	+	+
Demand Based Switching	-	+
FSB parity	-	-

Security technologies

Atom N270 and Atom Z510 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	-
EDB	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom N270 and Atom Z510 are enumerated here.

VT-d	-	-
VT-x	-	-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom N270 and Atom Z510. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Maximum memory size

8 GB

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Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Atom N270 0.09

Atom Z510 0.12
+33.3%

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 N270 136

Atom Z510 194
+42.6%