Intel Atom D2550 vs Samsung Exynos 5420. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Atom D2000 Samsung Exynos 5260/5410/5420/5422/5800
• Family
  Intel Atom Samsung Exynos
• Generation
  1 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• A-Core
  - 4x Cortex-A15
• B-Core
  - 4x Cortex-A7
• Base Frequency
  1.86 GHz 1.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 1.9 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 1.9 GHz

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 11
• Execution units
  4 6
• Generation
  - Midgard 2
• GPU Frequency
  640 MHz 530 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel GMA 3650 ARM Mali-T628 MP6
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Release date
  Q4/2008 Q4/2012
• Shader
  32 96
• Technology
  65 nm 32nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 5420 and Intel Atom D2550. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 0
• Memory type
  DDR3-1066 LPDDR3e-933

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom D2550 and Samsung Exynos 5420 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 -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom D2550 and Samsung Exynos 5420, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cedarview Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv7-A32 (32 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 -
• L2-Cache
  - 2.5 MB
• L3-Cache
  1 MB -
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q3/2013
• Socket
  BGA 559 -
• Technology
  32 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  None None