Atom N455 vs A8-3850

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Primary details

Comparing A8-3850 and Atom N455 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2143not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesA-Series (Desktop)Intel Atom
Power efficiency1.41no data
Architecture codenameLlano (2011−2012)Pinetrail (2009−2011)
Release date30 June 2011 (13 years ago)1 June 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$64

Detailed specifications

A8-3850 and Atom N455 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads42
Base clock speed2.9 GHz1.66 GHz
Boost clock speed2.9 GHz1.67 GHz
Bus rateno data533 MHz
L1 cache128 KB (per core)64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography32 nm45 nm
Die size228 mm266 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistors1,178 million123 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on A8-3850 and Atom N455 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
SocketFM1FCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt6.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-3850 and Atom N455. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switchingno data-

Security technologies

A8-3850 and Atom N455 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-3850 and Atom N455 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-3850 and Atom N455. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data2 GB
Max memory channelsno data1

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon HD 6550DIntel GMA 3150

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.

A8-3850 2374
+1111%
Atom N455 196

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

A8-3850 315
+494%
Atom N455 53

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

A8-3850 932
+1065%
Atom N455 80

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

A8-3850 2649
+370%
Atom N455 564

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

A8-3850 9534
+1005%
Atom N455 863

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.

A8-3850 4027
+722%
Atom N455 490

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.

A8-3850 14.2
+742%
Atom N455 119.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2011 1 June 2010
Physical cores 4 1
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 32 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 6 Watt

A8-3850 has an age advantage of 1 year, 300% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

Atom N455, on the other hand, has 1566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A8-3850 and Atom N455. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that A8-3850 is a desktop processor while Atom N455 is a notebook one.


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