Atom Z520 vs Phenom II X4 N970

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Primary details

Comparing Phenom II X4 N970 and Atom Z520 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2435not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series4x AMD Phenom IIIntel Atom
Power efficiency2.81no data
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Silverthorne (2008−2010)
Release date16 December 2010 (13 years ago)2 April 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$65

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X4 N970 and Atom Z520 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)1 (Single-Core)
Threads42
Base clock speedno data1.33 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz0.03 GHz
Bus typeno dataFSB
Bus rate3600 MHz533.33 MT/s
Multiplierno data10
L1 cache512 KB56 KB
L2 cache2 MB512 KB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die sizeno data24.18 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data90 °C
Number of transistorsno data47 Million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage rangeno data0.75-1.1V

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X4 N970 and Atom Z520 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)
SocketS1PBGA441
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt2 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X4 N970 and Atom Z520. 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

Phenom II X4 N970 and Atom Z520 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 N970 and Atom Z520 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+

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 N970 1647
+1250%
Atom Z520 122

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 N970 1861
+314%
Atom Z520 449

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 N970 6811
+888%
Atom Z520 690

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 N970 3043
+678%
Atom Z520 391

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 N970 17.8
+722%
Atom Z520 146.28

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 December 2010 2 April 2008
Physical cores 4 1
Threads 4 2
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 2 Watt

Phenom II X4 N970 has an age advantage of 2 years, and 300% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Atom Z520, on the other hand, has 1650% lower power consumption.

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