Intel Atom D2700 vs Intel Core i3-2120. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Atom D2000 Intel Core i 2000
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Core i3
• Generation
  1 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.13 GHz 3.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo

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

• DirectX Version
  10.1 10.1
• Execution units
  4 6
• Generation
  - 6
• GPU Frequency
  640 MHz 850 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel GMA 3650 Intel HD Graphics 2000
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1100 MHz
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Release date
  Q4/2008 Q1/2011
• Shader
  32 48
• Technology
  65 nm 32 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-2120 and Intel Atom D2700. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  1 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1066 DDR3-1066DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom D2700 and Intel Core i3-2120 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  10 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom D2700 and Intel Core i3-2120, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cedarview Sandy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  1 MB 3 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2011 Q1/2011
• Socket
  BGA 559 LGA 1155
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT