AMD Ryzen Embedded R1600 vs Intel Atom C3538. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 Intel Atom C3000
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Embedded Intel Atom
• 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
  2.6 GHz 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.1 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 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.

• 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.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Atom C3538 and AMD Ryzen Embedded R1600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 256 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  38.4 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2133
• PCIe
  3.0 x 8 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen Embedded R1600 and Intel Atom C3538 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  105 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP down
  12 W -
• TDP up
  25 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen Embedded R1600 and Intel Atom C3538, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Banded Kestrel (Zen) Denverton
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 8 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB -
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q3/2017
• Socket
  FP5 BGA 1310
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d