Celeron G550 vs Athlon II P360

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2603
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data1.65
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Athlon IIno data
Power efficiencyno data1.15
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date16 December 2010 (13 years ago)1 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$80

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speedno data2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Bus rate3200 MHz5 GT/s
L1 cache256 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB256 KB (per core)
L3 cacheno data2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die sizeno data131 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data69 °C
Number of transistorsno data504 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550 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
SocketS1g4FCLGA1155
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsSSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVMIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data17 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors
Graphics max frequencyno data1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550.

PCIe versionno data2.0

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 P360 711
Celeron G550 1259
+77.1%

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 P360 257
Celeron G550 388
+51%

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 P360 479
Celeron G550 656
+37%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 December 2010 1 June 2012
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 65 Watt

Athlon II P360 has 160% lower power consumption.

Celeron G550, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon II P360 and Celeron G550. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon II P360 is a notebook processor while Celeron G550 is a desktop one.


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