Duron 550: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Duron 550 sales 5 June 2000. Based on a K7 architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 180 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 550 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is a processor with a TDP of 25.4 Watt.
Primary details
Duron 550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Series | AMD Duron | |
| Architecture codename | K7 (2000−2004) | |
| Release date | 5 June 2000 (24 years ago) |
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 cores | 1 (Single-Core) | |
| Threads | 1 | |
| Boost clock speed | 0.55 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus type | FSB | |
| Bus rate | 200 MT/s | |
| Multiplier | 5.5 | of 42 (Core i7-7700K) |
| L2 cache | 64 KB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 180 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 100 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 25 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | - | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Duron 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.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25.4 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Duron 550's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Maximum memory size | 4 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Duron 550, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Duron 550 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 6 configurations using Duron 550 in our database.
