Atom N550 vs A8-4555M

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Primary details

Comparing A8-4555M and Atom N550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2563not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD A-SeriesIntel Atom
Power efficiency4.18no data
Architecture codenameTrinity (2012−2013)Pineview (2009−2011)
Release date27 September 2012 (12 years ago)23 August 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$86

Detailed specifications

A8-4555M 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.6 GHz1.5 GHz
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz1.5 GHz
Bus rateno data666 MHz
L1 cache192 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache4 MB (shared)512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography32 nm45 nm
Die size246 mm287 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)100 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,178 million176 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on A8-4555M 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 configuration11
SocketFP2FCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt8.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-4555M and Atom N550. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMAIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switchingno data-

Security technologies

A8-4555M and Atom N550 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-4555M and Atom N550 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-4555M and Atom N550. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesunknown Dual-channelDDR3
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 7600GIntel 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.

A8-4555M 1331
+370%
Atom N550 283

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.

A8-4555M 254
+297%
Atom N550 64

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.

A8-4555M 555
+294%
Atom N550 141

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.

A8-4555M 1555
+201%
Atom N550 517

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.

A8-4555M 3757
+162%
Atom N550 1435

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.

A8-4555M 1877
+153%
Atom N550 742

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.

A8-4555M 40.21
+66.1%
Atom N550 66.8

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 September 2012 23 August 2010
Physical cores 4 2
Chip lithography 32 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 8 Watt

A8-4555M has an age advantage of 2 years, 100% more physical cores, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

Atom N550, on the other hand, has 137.5% lower power consumption.

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