AMD E1-2500 vs Intel Pentium 3550M

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General info

Comparing Pentium 3550M and E1-2500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking2415not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel PentiumAMD E-Series
Architecture codenameHaswell (2013−2015)Kabini (2013−2014)
Release date1 September 2013 (10 years old)23 May 2013 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$134no data
Current price$76 (0.6x MSRP)$200

Technical specs

Pentium 3550M and E1-2500 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.3 GHzno data
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz1.4 GHz
L1 cache64K (per core)no data
L2 cache256K (per core)1024 KB
L3 cache2 MB (shared)0 KB
Chip lithography22 nm28 nm
Die size118 mm2246 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)105 °C90 °C
Number of transistors1,400 million1,178 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 3550M and E1-2500 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 configuration11
SocketG3FT3
Power consumption (TDP)37 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium 3550M and E1-2500. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno data86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, DDR3L-1333
AES-NIno data+
FMAno dataFMA4
AVXno data+
PowerTuneno data-
TrueAudiono data-
PowerNowno data+
PowerGatingno data+
Out-of-band client managementno data-
VirusProtectno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium 3550M and E1-2500 are enumerated here.

AMD-V++
VT-x+no data
IOMMU 2.0no data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium 3550M and E1-2500. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
Max memory channelsno data1

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel HD Graphics (Haswell)AMD Radeon HD 8240
Endurono data+
Switchable graphicsno data1
UVDno data+
VCEno data+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 3550M and E1-2500 integrated GPUs.

DisplayPortno data+
HDMIno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium 3550M and E1-2500 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno dataDirectX® 12
Vulkanno data1

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium 3550M and E1-2500.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Pentium 3550M 1330
+124%
E1-2500 593

Pentium 3550M outperforms E1-2500 by 124% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Integrated graphics card 0.83 0.60
Recency 1 September 2013 23 May 2013
Chip lithography 22 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 37 Watt 15 Watt

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