Turion II N550 vs Atom Z670

Primary details

Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	3661	3129
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Atom	AMD Turion II
Power efficiency	3.21	no data
Designer	Intel	AMD
Manufacturer	Intel	no data
Architecture codename	Lincroft (2010−2011)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	11 April 2011 (14 years ago)	4 October 2010 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$75	no data

Detailed specifications

Atom Z670 and Turion II N550 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)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Base clock speed	1.5 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1.5 GHz	2.6 GHz
Bus type	cDMI	no data
Bus rate	400 MT/s	3600 MHz
Multiplier	8	no data
L1 cache	64K (per core)	265 KB
L2 cache	512K (per core)	2 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
Die size	65 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	no data
Number of transistors	140 million	no data
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Atom Z670 and Turion II N550 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)	no data
Socket	T-PBGA518	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	3 Watt	2 MB

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom Z670 and Turion II N550. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE(1,2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0
VirusProtect	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-

Security technologies

Atom Z670 and Turion II N550 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB

+

no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom Z670 and Turion II N550 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 Z670 and Turion II N550. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR2	DDR3
Maximum memory size	2.93 GB	no data
Max memory channels	1	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	3.2 GB/s	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

PowerVR SGX535

no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Atom Z670 and Turion II N550 integrated GPUs.

LVDS

+

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom Z670 and Turion II N550.

PCI support

-

no data

Synthetic benchmarks

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

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	0.09	0.50
Recency	11 April 2011	4 October 2010
Physical cores	1	2
Power consumption (TDP)	3 Watt	2 Watt

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