Intel Atom C2350 vs Intel Core i5-2550k. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Core i5
• Generation
  1 2
• CPU group
  Intel Atom C2000 Intel Core i 2000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.70 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.00 GHz 3.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-2550k and Intel Atom C2350. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  4 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C2350 and Intel Core i5-2550k to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 95 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C2350 and Intel Atom C2350, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Avoton Sandy Bridge S
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1283 LGA 1155
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q1/2012