Pentium Gold G5400 vs Atom N2850

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Primary details

Comparing Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1800
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data5.74
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel AtomIntel Pentium Gold
Power efficiencyno data4.36
Architecture codenameCedarview-M (2011−2012)Coffee Lake (2017−2019)
Release date5 January 2012 (12 years ago)2 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$64

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 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 speedno data3.7 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data37
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB256K (per core)
L3 cacheno data4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm14 nm
Die sizeno data126 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data72 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
Socketno dataFCLGA1151
Power consumption (TDP)6,6 Watt58 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+

Security technologies

Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPX-+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4-2400
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
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) 3650 (640 MHz)Intel UHD Graphics 610
Max video memoryno data64 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequencyno data1.05 GHz
InTru 3Dno data+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096x2304@24Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data4096x2304@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2012 2 April 2018
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 58 Watt

Atom N2850 has 866.7% lower power consumption.

Pentium Gold G5400, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Atom N2850 and Pentium Gold G5400. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Atom N2850 is a notebook processor while Pentium Gold G5400 is a desktop one.


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