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Intel Atom Z550 vs Intel Atom Z500

Intel Atom Z550

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The Intel Atom Z550 is a power saving netbook / MID single-core processor. Compared to the Atom N-series, the Z-series supports Virtualization in hardware and got the Idle States and Demand Based Switching functions. Therefore, the Z-Series also has a lower TDP rating.

The Atom core was designed for a low power consumption and cheap production. The downside is the relative low performance per Watt (due to the in-order execution) compared to similar clocked Celeron processors, e.g.. Still the integrated Hyper-Threading (the operating system sees the CPU as a dual core CPU) decreases the penalty of the in-order execution a bit.

Intel Atom Z500

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The Intel Atom Z500 is a single core CPU for small MIDs, netbooks, internet devices. The performance is very low and therefore only some applications with low CPU demand may run fluently (e.g., email, simple word processing). The Z500 is specified with a TDP of only 0.65W but the US15W chipset needs 2.3W. 

The Atom Z500 supports HyperThreading to execute 2 Threads with the single processor core. However, 64 Bit instructions are not supported.

Furthermore, the Atom Z500 supports the following power saving features:

  • C1/AutoHalt state
  • C1/MWAIT state
  • Enhanced HALT state
  • Stop Grant state
  • Enhanced Stop Grant state
  • Sleep state Deep Sleep state
  • Deeper Sleep state
  • Enhanced Deeper Sleep state
  • C5 state Deep Power-down technology
  • Enhanced SpeedStep technology

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ModelIntel Atom Z550Intel Atom Z500
SeriesIntel AtomIntel Atom
CodenameSilverthorneSilverthorne
Series: Atom Silverthorne
Intel Atom Z560 compare2.13 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z550 « 2 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z540 compare1.83 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom 230 compare1.6 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z530 compare1.6 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z520 compare1.33 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z510 compare1.1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Intel Atom Z5000.8 GHz1 / 1 cores
Intel Atom Z560 compare2.13 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z5502 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z540 compare1.83 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom 230 compare1.6 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z530 compare1.6 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z520 compare1.33 GHz1 / 2 cores
Intel Atom Z510 compare1.1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Intel Atom Z500 « 0.8 GHz1 / 1 cores
Clock2000 MHz800 MHz
FSB533400
L2 Cache512 KB512 KB
Cores / Threads1 / 21 / 1
TDP2.4 Watt0.65 Watt
Transistors47 Million47 Million
45 nm45 nm, 0.8-1.1V
Die Size26 mm226 mm2
SocketPBGA441PBGA441
FeaturesMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, HHT, HyperthreadingeXBit, Hyper Threading, Enhanced Speedstep, SSE3
Architecturex86x86
Announced
Manufacturerark.intel.comark.intel.com
L1 Cache56 KB
max. Temp.90 °C
$45 U.S.

Benchmarks

Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
100%
1 Z550 +
657 Points (4%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
100%
1 Z550 +
980 Points (1%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
100%
1 Z550 +
3625 s (43%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
100%
Z550 +
101.5 s (20%)
115 s (23%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
100%
1 Z550 +
82 s (18%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
100%
1 Z550 +
182 s (8%)
PCMark 05 - PCMark 05 - Standard
100%
1 Z550 +
1506 Points (3%)
Windows Vista Experience Index - Windows Vista Leistungsindex - Prozessor
100%
1 Z550 +
2.7 Points (39%)
Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 CPU
100%
1 Z550 +
2.7 Points (35%)

Average Benchmarks Intel Atom Z550 → 100% n=1

Average Benchmarks Intel Atom Z500 → 97% n=1

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