Intel Atom Z670 vs Intel Pentium B950

Intel Atom Z670
Intel BGA 518MOBILE
1500 MHz / Cores: 1 / Apr 2011
Intel Atom Z670
Intel Pentium B950
Intel Socket G2 (988B)MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2011
Intel Pentium B950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Atom Z670
    100%
  • Intel Pentium B950
    500%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Atom Z670
    100%
  • Intel Pentium B950
    429%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Atom Z670
    100%
  • Intel Pentium B950
    552%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Atom Z670

None

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium B950

Much higher single threaded performance (around 329% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 452% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 400% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Pentium B950

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium B950

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Pentium B950

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium B950

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Atom Z670Intel Pentium B950
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
and Intel Burst Performance Technology (BPT).
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Intel 64
Smart Cache.

Architecture

Intel Atom Z670Intel Pentium B950
ArchitectureIntel_BonnellvsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR2vsDDR3
CodenameLincroftvsSandy Bridge
Release DateApr 2011vsJun 2011

Cores

Intel Atom Z670Intel Pentium B950
Cores1vs2
Threads1vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsGMAvsIntel HD (Sandy Bridge)

Cache

Intel Atom Z670Intel Pentium B950
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs2048 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Atom Z670Intel Pentium B950
SocketIntel BGA 518vsIntel Socket G2 (988B)
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageFC-BGA12FvsrPGA
Die Size65mm²vs131mm²
Process45 nmvs32 nm

Performance

Intel Atom Z670Intel Pentium B950
Cpu Frequency1500 MHzvs2100 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.5 Vvsunknown
TDP3 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Atom Z670
    300 points
  • Intel Pentium B950
    2100 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Atom Z670
    300 points
  • Intel Pentium B950
    4200 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • Intel Atom Z670
    415
  • Intel Pentium B950
    2491

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • Intel Atom Z670
    266
  • Intel Pentium B950
    1483

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • Intel Atom Z670
    497
  • Intel Pentium B950
    2730

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • Intel Atom Z670
    759
  • Intel Pentium B950
    5255

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • Intel Atom Z670
    0.22
  • Intel Pentium B950
    1.63

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • Intel Atom Z670
    110.5
  • Intel Pentium B950
    18.9

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • Intel Atom Z670
    151
  • Intel Pentium B950
    34.3

seconds - lower is better