Intel Atom N2600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Atom AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  1 4
• CPU group
  Intel Atom N2000 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

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
  1.60 GHz 3.80 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• 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
  Intel GMA 3600 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  4
• Shader
  32
• Max. displays
  2
• DirectX Version
  10.1
• Technology
  65 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2008

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 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and Intel Atom N2600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  4.0
• PCIe lanes
  20

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom N2600 and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  3.5 W 105 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom N2600 and Intel Atom N2600, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cedarview Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Technology
  32 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  BGA 559 AM4
• Release date
  Q4/2011 Q4/2020