Turion II N550: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Turion II N550 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.55% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Turion II N550 sales 4 October 2010. This is a Champlain architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2600 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is S1 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Turion II N550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2847 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Turion II | |
| Power efficiency | 1.49 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Champlain (2010−2011) | |
| Release date | 4 October 2010 (14 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 | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Boost clock speed | 2.6 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus rate | 3600 MHz | |
| L1 cache | 265 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Turion II N550 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.
| Socket | S1 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Turion II N550. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | MMX, 3DNow!, SSE(1,2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0 | |
| VirusProtect | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Turion II N550's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Turion II N550. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Turion II N550 is Celeron 2955U, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Turion II N550, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Turion II N550 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4 configurations using Turion II N550 in our database.
