Atom x5-Z8300 vs Pentium M 760

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesPentium M5x Intel Atom
Architecture codenameDothan (2004−2005)Cherry Trail (2015−2016)
Release date19 January 2005 (19 years ago)2 March 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300 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 cores1 (Single-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads14
Base clock speed2 GHz1.44 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz1.84 GHz
Bus rate533 MHzno data
L1 cache32 KBno data
L2 cache2 MB2 MB
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography90 nm14 nm
Die size87 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °C90 °C
Number of transistors144 millionno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.26V-1.356Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300 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 (Uniprocessor)
SocketH-PBGA479,PPGA478UTFCBGA592
Power consumption (TDP)27 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE32 Bitno data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data
Secure Bootno data+
Identity Protection-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300 are enumerated here.

VT-x-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data2 GB
Max memory channelsno data1
Maximum memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)Intel HD Graphics
Max video memoryno data2 GB
Graphics max frequencyno data500 MHz
Execution Unitsno data12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data1920x1080

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium M 760 and Atom x5-Z8300.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data1
USB revisionno data3.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Pentium M 760 830
Atom x5-Z8300 1691
+104%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Pentium M 760 86
Atom x5-Z8300 36.4
+136%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2005 2 March 2015
Physical cores 1 4
Threads 1 4
Chip lithography 90 nm 14 nm

Atom x5-Z8300 has an age advantage of 10 years, 300% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

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