Intel Atom C3538 vs Intel Pentium D1507. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Pentium
• Generation
  2 5
• CPU group
  Intel Atom C3000 Intel Pentium D

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
  2.10 GHz 1.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 1.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• 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 Pentium D1507 and Intel Atom C3538. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  256 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 32

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C3538 and Intel Pentium D1507 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 20 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C3538 and Intel Atom C3538, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Denverton Broadwell
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1310 AM1
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2015