A8-3550MX vs Atom N280

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Primary details

Comparing Atom N280 and A8-3550MX processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2419
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel AtomAMD A-Series
Power efficiencyno data2.23
Architecture codenameDiamondVille (2008−2009)Llano (2011−2012)
Release date1 February 2009 (15 years ago)20 December 2011 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Atom N280 and A8-3550MX 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 cores1 (Single-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads24
Base clock speed1.66 GHz2 GHz
Boost clock speed0.07 GHz2.7 GHz
Bus typeFSBno data
Bus rate666.66 MT/sno data
Multiplier10no data
L1 cache56 KB128K (per core)
L2 cache512 KB1 MB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die size25.9638 mm2228 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °Cno data
Number of transistors47 Million1,178 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.9V-1.1625Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Atom N280 and A8-3550MX 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
SocketPBGA437FS1
Power consumption (TDP)2.5 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom N280 and A8-3550MX. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE33DNow!, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Radeon HD 6620G
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 N280 and A8-3550MX 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 N280 and A8-3550MX 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 N280 and A8-3550MX. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory size8 GBno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card-AMD Radeon HD 6620G

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 N280 157
A8-3550MX 1687
+975%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2009 20 December 2011
Physical cores 1 4
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 2 Watt 45 Watt

Atom N280 has 2150% lower power consumption.

A8-3550MX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, 300% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Atom N280 and A8-3550MX. We've got no test results to judge.


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