Atom N2600 vs Athlon II X4 615e

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2286not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.23no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Atom
Power efficiency2.65no data
Architecture codenamePropus (2009−2011)Cedarview-M (2011−2012)
Release date21 September 2010 (14 years ago)1 December 2011 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$59$47

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600 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 speed2.5 GHz1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2.5 GHz1.6 GHz
L1 cache128 KB (per core)64 KB (per core)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die size169 mm266 mm2
Number of transistors300 million176 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600 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
SocketAM3FCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt3.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600. 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

Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600 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 X4 615e and Atom N2600 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data2.44 GB
Max memory channelsno data1

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600.

PCIe version2.0no 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.



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 X4 615e 2000
+456%
Atom N2600 360

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 September 2010 1 December 2011
Physical cores 4 2
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 3 Watt

Athlon II X4 615e has 100% more physical cores.

Atom N2600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 40.6% more advanced lithography process, and 1400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Athlon II X4 615e and Atom N2600. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Athlon II X4 615e is a desktop processor while Atom N2600 is a notebook one.


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