Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE vs Atom Z550

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Primary details

Comparing Atom Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1652
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Atomno data
Power efficiencyno data7.90
Architecture codenameSilverthorne (2008−2010)Dali (2020)
Release date8 April 2009 (15 years ago)21 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Atom Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads24
Base clock speed2 GHz3.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz3.4 GHz
Bus typeFSBno data
Bus rate533.33 MT/sno data
Multiplier15no data
L1 cache56 KB (per core)96K (per core)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm12 nm
Die size26 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature90 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data95 °C
Number of transistors47 millionno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Atom Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE 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
SocketPBGA441AM4
Power consumption (TDP)2.4 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching+no data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Atom Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE 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 Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE 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 Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesunknownDDR4-2933

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE.

PCIe versionno data4.0

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 Z550 381
Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE 4633
+1116%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 April 2009 21 July 2020
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 45 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 2 Watt 35 Watt

Atom Z550 has 1650% lower power consumption.

Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Atom Z550 and Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Atom Z550 is a notebook processor while Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE is a desktop one.


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