Atom N550 vs Xeon W3505

Place in the ranking	2689	3267
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	no data	Intel Atom
Power efficiency	0.53	1.89
Architecture codename	Bloomfield (2008−2010)	Pineview (2009−2011)
Release date	30 March 2009 (15 years ago)	23 August 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$86

Detailed specifications

Xeon W3505 and Atom 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	2.53 GHz	1.5 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.53 GHz	1.5 GHz
Bus rate	no data	666 MHz
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	64K (per core)
L2 cache	256 KB (per core)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	0 KB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
Die size	263 mm²	87 mm²
Number of transistors	731 million	176 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	0.8V-1.225V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon W3505 and Atom 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	1
Socket	1366	FCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	8.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon W3505 and Atom N550. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.2	Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	+
Turbo Boost Technology	-	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	+
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	-	+
Demand Based Switching	+	-
PAE	36 Bit	no data

Security technologies

Xeon W3505 and Atom N550 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	-
EDB	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon W3505 and Atom N550 are enumerated here.

VT-d	no data	-
VT-x	+	-
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon W3505 and Atom N550. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum memory size	24 GB	2 GB
Max memory channels	3	1
Maximum memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

N/A

Intel GMA 3150

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon W3505 and Atom N550.

PCIe version

2.0

no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Xeon W3505 0.73
+306%

Atom N550 0.18

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.

Xeon W3505 1161
+310%

Atom N550 283