Atom Z520 vs Celeron 560

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron 560 and Atom Z520 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Atom
Architecture codenameno dataSilverthorne (2008−2010)
Release date1 January 2008 (16 years ago)2 April 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$65

Detailed specifications

Celeron 560 and Atom Z520 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 coresno data1 (Single-Core)
Threadsno data2
Base clock speed2.13 GHz1.33 GHz
Boost clock speedno data0.03 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rateno data533.33 MT/s
Multiplierno data10
L1 cacheno data56 KB
L2 cacheno data512 KB
L3 cache1 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography65 nm45 nm
Die sizeno data24.18 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C90 °C
Number of transistorsno data47 Million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.95V-1.3V0.75-1.1V

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 560 and Atom Z520 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPPGA478PBGA441
Power consumption (TDP)31 Watt2 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 560 and Atom Z520. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® 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

Celeron 560 and Atom Z520 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT--
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron 560 and Atom Z520 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-x-+

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.

Celeron 560 339
+178%
Atom Z520 122

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2008 2 April 2008
Chip lithography 65 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 31 Watt 2 Watt

Atom Z520 has an age advantage of 3 months, a 44.4% more advanced lithography process, and 1450% lower power consumption.

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