Atom x5-Z8330 vs Athlon II P340

Primary details

Comparing Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Athlon II5x Intel Atom
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Airmont (2016)
Release date4 October 2010 (14 years ago)8 February 2016 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330 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 cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads24
Base clock speedno data1.44 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz1.92 GHz
Bus rate3200 MHzno data
L1 cache256 KBno data
L2 cache1 MB2 MB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data90 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketS1g4no data
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsSSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVMno data
AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+

Security technologies

Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

Identity Protection-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3L-RS 1600
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.

Graphics max frequencyno data500 MHz
Execution Unitsno data12

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II P340 and Atom x5-Z8330.

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.



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.

Athlon II P340 704
Atom x5-Z8330 809
+14.9%

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.

Athlon II P340 187
+2.7%
Atom x5-Z8330 182

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.

Athlon II P340 307
Atom x5-Z8330 570
+85.7%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 October 2010 8 February 2016
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 45 nm 14 nm

Atom x5-Z8330 has an age advantage of 5 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

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