Atom 330 vs Phenom II X4 N930

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Primary details

Comparing Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2468not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series4x AMD Phenom IIIntel Atom
Power efficiency2.65no data
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Diamondville (2008−2009)
Release date12 May 2010 (14 years ago)2 April 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$43

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speedno data1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz0.1 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rate3600 MHz533.33 MT/s
Multiplierno data12
L1 cache512 KB112 KB
L2 cache2 MB1 MB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die sizeno data51.9276 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data85 °C
Number of transistorsno data94 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage rangeno data0.9V-1.1625V

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330 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)
SocketS1PBGA437
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt8 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3dNow!, SSE (2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Vurtualization, HyperTransport 3.0Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3
VirusProtect+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Demand Based Switchingno data-
FSB parityno data-

Security technologies

Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3no data
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.

Phenom II X4 N930 1558
+329%
Atom 330 363

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.

Phenom II X4 N930 1738
+221%
Atom 330 542

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.

Phenom II X4 N930 6319
+313%
Atom 330 1530

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.

Phenom II X4 N930 2831
+243%
Atom 330 825

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.

Phenom II X4 N930 19.1
+510%
Atom 330 116.45

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2010 2 April 2008
Physical cores 4 2
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 8 Watt

Phenom II X4 N930 has an age advantage of 2 years, and 100% more physical cores.

Atom 330, on the other hand, has 337.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Phenom II X4 N930 and Atom 330. We've got no test results to judge.


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