Athlon 300U vs Atom N2600

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Primary details

Comparing Atom N2600 and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1756
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel AtomAMD Athlon
Power efficiencyno data15.33
Architecture codenameCedarview-M (2011−2012)Raven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date1 December 2011 (12 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$47no data

Detailed specifications

Atom N2600 and Athlon 300U 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)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.6 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed1.6 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Multiplierno data24
L1 cache64 KB (per core)192 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache0 KB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm14 nm
Die size66 mm2209.78 mm2
Number of transistors176 million4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Atom N2600 and Athlon 300U 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 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCBGA559FP5
Power consumption (TDP)3.5 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom N2600 and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data

Security technologies

Atom N2600 and Athlon 300U 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 N2600 and Athlon 300U 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 N2600 and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size2.44 GB64 GB
Max memory channels12
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom N2600 and Athlon 300U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

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 N2600 360
Athlon 300U 3867
+974%

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.

Atom N2600 541
Athlon 300U 3968
+633%

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.

Atom N2600 1528
Athlon 300U 8724
+471%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Atom N2600 66
Athlon 300U 15.44
+327%

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Atom N2600 10
Athlon 300U 19
+86.9%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Atom N2600 10
Athlon 300U 89
+804%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2011 6 January 2019
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 3 Watt 15 Watt

Atom N2600 has 400% lower power consumption.

Athlon 300U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Atom N2600 and Athlon 300U. We've got no test results to judge.


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