Ryzen 5 3600 vs Atom 330

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Primary details

Comparing Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated689
Place by popularitynot in top-1009
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data23.56
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel AtomAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiencyno data16.27
Architecture codenameDiamondville (2008−2009)Matisse (2019−2020)
Release date2 April 2008 (16 years ago)7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$43$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600 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)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads412
Base clock speed1.6 GHz3.6 GHz
Boost clock speed0.1 GHz4.2 GHz
Bus typeFSBno data
Bus rate533.33 MT/sno data
Multiplier12no data
L1 cache112 KB384 KB
L2 cache1 MB3 MB
L3 cache0 KB32 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm7 nm, 12 nm
Die size51.9276 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature85 °Cno data
Number of transistors94 Million4,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+
VID voltage range0.9V-1.1625Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPBGA437AM4
Power consumption (TDP)8 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3no data
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d-no data
VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size8 GB128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data51.196 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card--

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.

Atom 330 363
Ryzen 5 3600 17747
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Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2008 7 July 2019
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 4 12
Chip lithography 45 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 8 Watt 65 Watt

Atom 330 has 712.5% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 3600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Atom 330 and Ryzen 5 3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Atom 330 is a notebook processor while Ryzen 5 3600 is a desktop one.


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