Intel Atom D2550 vs Intel Core i5-4200U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Core i5
• Generation
  1 4
• CPU group
  Intel Atom D2000 Intel Core i 4000U

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
  1.86 GHz 1.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 2.30 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• 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
  Intel GMA 3650 Intel HD Graphics 4400
• GPU frequency
  0.64 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.00 GHz
• Execution units
  4 20
• Shader
  32 160
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  7.5
• DirectX Version
  10.1 11.1
• Technology
  65 nm 22 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2008 Q2/2013

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 Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-4200U and Intel Atom D2550. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  12

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom D2550 and Intel Core i5-4200U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  10 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom D2550 and Intel Atom D2550, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cedarview Haswell U
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  BGA 559 BGA 1168
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q3/2013