Atom N270 vs Core 2 Duo P8600

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Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2841not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 DuoIntel Atom
Power efficiency2.01no data
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)DiamondVille (2008−2009)
Release date15 July 2008 (16 years ago)2 April 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$209$44

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270 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)1 (Single-Core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.4 GHz1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz0.1 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rate1066 MHz533.33 MT/s
Multiplierno data12
L1 cache128 KB56 KB
L2 cache3 MB512 KB
L3 cache3 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die size81 mm225.9638 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C90 °C
Number of transistors274 Million47 Million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.05V-1.15V0.9V-1.1625V

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270 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)
SocketBGA479,PBGA479,PGA478PBGA437
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt2.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE, Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
Idle States+-
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switching--
FSB parity--

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+-
EDB++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-x+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB

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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 845
+521%
Atom N270 136

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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 2618
+384%
Atom N270 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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 4910
+492%
Atom N270 830

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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 2155
+346%
Atom N270 483

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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 34.63
+264%
Atom N270 126

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 July 2008 2 April 2008
Physical cores 2 1
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 2 Watt

Core 2 Duo P8600 has an age advantage of 3 months, and 100% more physical cores.

Atom N270, on the other hand, has 1150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Core 2 Duo P8600 and Atom N270. We've got no test results to judge.


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