Atom 330: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Atom 330 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.23% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
Intel started Atom 330 sales 2 April 2008 at a recommended price of $43. This is a Diamondville architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 99 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is PBGA437 processor with a TDP of 8 Watt.
Primary details
Atom 330 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 3190 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Intel Atom | |
| Power efficiency | 2.72 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Diamondville (2008−2009) | |
| Release date | 2 April 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $43 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 1.6 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 0.1 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | FSB | |
| Bus rate | 533.33 MT/s | |
| Multiplier | 12 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L1 cache | 112 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 51.9276 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 85 °C | of 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 94 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| VID voltage range | 0.9V-1.1625V |
Compatibility
Information on Atom 330 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | PBGA437 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 8 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Atom 330. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3 | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | - | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| Demand Based Switching | - | |
| FSB parity | - |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | |
| EDB | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | - | |
| VT-x | - |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Atom 330's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Maximum memory size | 8 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Atom 330.
| Integrated graphics card | - |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Atom 330. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Atom 330 is A4-1200, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Atom 330, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Atom 330 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 176 configurations using Atom 330 in our database.
