Atom Z3740: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Atom Z3740 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.39% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
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Summary
Intel started Atom Z3740 sales 27 September 2013 at a recommended price of $32. This is a Bay Trail-T architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1860 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is UTFCBGA1380 processor with a TDP of 2 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Atom Z3740 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 3165 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Power efficiency | 18.74 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | Intel | |
| Manufacturer | Intel | |
| Architecture codename | Bay Trail-T (2013−2014) | |
| Release date | 27 September 2013 (11 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $32 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
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 | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 1.33 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 1.86 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 22 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | of 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Atom Z3740 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 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | UTFCBGA1380 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 2 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Atom Z3740. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| Secure Key | + | |
| Identity Protection | + | |
| Anti-Theft | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-x | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Atom Z3740's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | |
| Maximum memory size | 4 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 17.1 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Atom Z3740.
| Integrated graphics card | Intel HD Graphics for Intel Atom Processor Z3700 Series | |
| Quick Sync Video | + | |
| Clear Video HD | + | |
| Graphics max frequency | 667 MHz |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Atom Z3740. 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.
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.
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.
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.
TrueCrypt AES
TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.
WinRAR 4.0
WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.
Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core
Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core
Geekbench 2
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Atom Z3740 is Athlon X2 QL-64, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Atom Z3740, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Atom Z3740 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 133 configurations using Atom Z3740 in our database.
