Atom N2600 vs Celeron Dual-Core T3500

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron Dual-Core T3500 and Atom N2600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2590not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Celeron Dual-CoreIntel Atom
Power efficiency2.16no data
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)Cedarview-M (2011−2012)
Release date26 September 2010 (14 years ago)1 December 2011 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$80$47

Detailed specifications

Celeron Dual-Core T3500 and Atom N2600 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)
Threads24
Base clock speedno data1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2.1 GHz1.6 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cache128 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB512K (per core)
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die size107 mm266 mm2
Number of transistors410 Million176 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron Dual-Core T3500 and Atom N2600 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
SocketSocket P PGA478FCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt3.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron Dual-Core T3500 and Atom N2600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switchingno data-

Security technologies

Celeron Dual-Core T3500 and Atom N2600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron Dual-Core T3500 and Atom N2600 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron Dual-Core T3500 and Atom N2600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data2.44 GB
Max memory channelsno data1

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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.

Celeron Dual-Core T3500 1275
+254%
Atom N2600 360

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.

Celeron Dual-Core T3500 2063
+281%
Atom N2600 541

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.

Celeron Dual-Core T3500 4098
+168%
Atom N2600 1528

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Celeron Dual-Core T3500 1760
+117%
Atom N2600 812

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.

Celeron Dual-Core T3500 38.5
+71.4%
Atom N2600 66

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 September 2010 1 December 2011
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 3 Watt

Atom N2600 has an age advantage of 1 year, 100% more threads, a 40.6% more advanced lithography process, and 1066.7% lower power consumption.

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