Atom N550 vs Celeron M 353

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 353 and Atom N550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesCeleron MIntel Atom
Architecture codenameDothan (2004−2005)Pineview (2009−2011)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)23 August 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$86

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 353 and Atom N550 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)
Threads14
Base clock speedno data1.5 GHz
Boost clock speed0.9 GHz1.5 GHz
Bus rate400 MHz666 MHz
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cacheno data512K (per core)
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography90 nm45 nm
Die sizeno data87 mm2
Number of transistorsno data176 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 353 and Atom N550 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
Socketno dataFCBGA559
Power consumption (TDP)5 Watt8.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 353 and Atom N550. 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 M 353 and Atom N550 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 353 and Atom N550 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 353 and Atom N550. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

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

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel GMA 3150

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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 M 353 423
Atom N550 517
+22.1%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 4
Chip lithography 90 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 5 Watt 8 Watt

Celeron M 353 has 60% lower power consumption.

Atom N550, on the other hand, has 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Celeron M 353 and Atom N550. We've got no test results to judge.


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