Atom Z560 vs Pentium III 866

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Atom
Architecture codenameCoppermine T (2000)Silverthorne (2008−2010)
Release date20 March 2000 (24 years ago)1 June 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560 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)1 (Single-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speedno data2.13 GHz
Boost clock speed0.87 GHz0.13 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rateno data533.33 MT/s
Multiplierno data16
L1 cache32 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache256 KB512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography180 nm45 nm
Die size106 mm226 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data90 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)80 °Cno data
Number of transistors28 million47 million
64 bit support--
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage rangeno data0.75V-1.1V

Compatibility

Information on Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560 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 configuration21 (Uniprocessor)
Socket370PBGA441
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt2.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560. 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+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switchingno data+
FSB parityno data-

Security technologies

Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataunknown

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 March 2000 1 June 2010
Threads 1 2
Chip lithography 180 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 2 Watt

Atom Z560 has an age advantage of 10 years, 100% more threads, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 1250% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium III 866 and Atom Z560. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium III 866 is a desktop processor while Atom Z560 is a notebook one.


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