Atom Z500: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Atom Z500 sales 2 April 2008 at a recommended price of $45. This is a Silverthorne architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 800 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is PBGA441 processor with a TDP of 0.65 Watt.
Primary details
Atom Z500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Intel Atom | |
| Architecture codename | Silverthorne (2008−2010) | |
| Release date | 2 April 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $45 | 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 | 1 (Single-Core) | |
| Threads | 1 | |
| Boost clock speed | 0.8 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | FSB | |
| Bus rate | 400 MT/s | |
| Multiplier | 8 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 56 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| Die size | 24.18 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H) |
| Number of transistors | 47 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | - | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| VID voltage range | 0.80 -1.1V |
Compatibility
Information on Atom Z500 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 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | PBGA441 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 0.65 Watt | of 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Atom Z500. 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 | + | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | + | |
| FSB parity | - |
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 | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Atom Z500.
| Integrated graphics card | - |
Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Atom Z500, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Atom Z500 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3 configurations using Atom Z500 in our database.
