Celeron M 550: specs and benchmarks

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Celeron M 550
1 core / 1 thread, 30 Watt
0.29

Celeron M 550 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.29% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

This is a Merom architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is a processor with a TDP of 30 Watt.

Primary details

Celeron M 550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking3123
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesCeleron M
Power efficiency0.91of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)
Release dateno data

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)
Threads1
Boost clock speed2 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate533 MHz
Chip lithography65 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 550 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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.

Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Celeron M 550. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Celeron M 550 0.29

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 M 550 465

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 550 1834

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 M 550 877

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Celeron M 550's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Celeron M 550 is E1-2200, which is faster by 3% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended GPUs

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