Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) vs Atom N270

Primary details

Comparing Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1612
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Atomno data
Power efficiencyno data3.12
Architecture codenameDiamondVille (2008−2009)Thuban (2010)
Release date2 April 2008 (16 years ago)1 May 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$44no data

Detailed specifications

Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) 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 cores1 (Single-Core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads26
Base clock speed1.6 GHz2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed0.1 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typeFSBno data
Bus rate533.33 MT/sno data
Multiplier12no data
L1 cache56 KB128 KB (per core)
L2 cache512 KB512 KB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB6 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die size25.9638 mm2346 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °Cno data
Number of transistors47 Million904 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.9V-1.1625Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketPBGA437AM3
Power consumption (TDP)2.5 Watt95 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W). You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE, Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
Idle States-no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) 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 N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d-no data
VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W). Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory size8 GBno data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W).

PCIe versionno data2.0

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 N270 136
Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) 4965
+3551%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2008 1 May 2010
Physical cores 1 6
Threads 2 6
Power consumption (TDP) 2 Watt 95 Watt

Atom N270 has 4650% lower power consumption.

Phenom II X6 1055T (95W), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 500% more physical cores and 200% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Atom N270 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Atom N270 is a notebook processor while Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) is a desktop one.


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