Atom N280 vs Pentium T4400
Primary details
Comparing Pentium T4400 and Atom N280 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | no data | Intel Atom |
| Architecture codename | no data | DiamondVille (2008−2009) |
| Release date | 1 October 2009 (14 years ago) | 1 February 2009 (15 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium T4400 and Atom N280 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 | no data | 1 (Single-Core) |
| Threads | no data | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 2.2 GHz | 1.66 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 0.07 GHz |
| Bus type | no data | FSB |
| Bus rate | no data | 666.66 MT/s |
| Multiplier | no data | 10 |
| L1 cache | no data | 56 KB |
| L2 cache | no data | 512 KB |
| L3 cache | 1 MB L2 Cache | 0 KB |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 45 nm |
| Die size | no data | 25.9638 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 105 °C | 90 °C |
| Number of transistors | no data | 47 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | - |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
| VID voltage range | no data | 0.9V-1.1625V |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium T4400 and Atom N280 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 | no data | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
| Socket | PGA478 | PBGA437 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 2.5 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium T4400 and Atom N280. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3 |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | + |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | - |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | + |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Thermal Monitoring | - | + |
| Demand Based Switching | - | - |
| Status | Discontinued | Discontinued |
Security technologies
Pentium T4400 and Atom N280 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | - |
| EDB | + | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium T4400 and Atom N280 are enumerated here.
| VT-d | - | - |
| VT-x | - | - |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium T4400 and Atom N280. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Maximum memory size | no data | 8 GB |
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 October 2009 | 1 February 2009 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 2 Watt |
Pentium T4400 has an age advantage of 8 months.
Atom N280, on the other hand, has 1650% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Pentium T4400 and Atom N280. We've got no test results to judge.
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