Intel Atom D2550 vs AMD A12-9700P. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Atom AMD A
• Generation
  1 6
• CPU group
  Intel Atom D2000 AMD A12-9700
• Predecessor
  -- No
• Successor
  -- No

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 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- No
• B core
  -- No
• C core
  -- No

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 AMD Radeon R7 - 512
• GPU frequency
  0.64 GHz 0.76 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  4 8
• Shader
  32 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  6
• DirectX Version
  10.1 12
• Technology
  65 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2008 Q2/2016

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A12-9700P and Intel Atom D2550. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066 DDR4-1866
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom D2550 and AMD A12-9700P to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  10 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- No
• TDP (PL2)
  -- No
• TDP down
  -- No
• Tjunction max.
  -- 90 °C

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 AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB No
• Architecture
  Cedarview Excavator
• Technology
  32 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  BGA 559 FP4
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q4/2016