Intel Pentium 987 vs Intel Atom Z3740

Intel Pentium 987
Intel BGA1023MOBILE
1500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Feb 2013
Intel Pentium 987
Intel Atom Z3740
Intel BGA1380MOBILE
1333 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2013
Intel Atom Z3740

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Pentium 987
    100%
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    206%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium 987
    116%
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium 987
    100%
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    245%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium 987

16% higher single threaded performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Atom Z3740

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 145% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 106% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Atom Z3740

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Atom Z3740

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Atom Z3740

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Atom Z3740

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


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium 987Intel Atom Z3740
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
Intel 64
XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
Smart Cache.
EIST
XD bit
BPT

Architecture

Intel Pentium 987Intel Atom Z3740
ArchitectureIntel_SandyBridgevsIntel_Silvermont
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameSandy BridgevsBay Trail-T
Release DateFeb 2013vsSep 2013

Cores

Intel Pentium 987Intel Atom Z3740
Cores2vs4
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD (Sandy Bridge)vsHD Graphics

Cache

Intel Pentium 987Intel Atom Z3740
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs512 KB (per core)
L3 Cache2048 KB (shared)vs0 KB

Physical

Intel Pentium 987Intel Atom Z3740
SocketIntel BGA1023vsIntel BGA1380
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackagerPGAvsFC-BGA1380
Die Size131mm²vsunknown
Process32 nmvs22 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium 987Intel Atom Z3740
Cpu Frequency1500 MHzvs1333 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs1867 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs133 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP17 Wvs2 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium 987
    1500 points
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    1120 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium 987
    3000 points
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    3199 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • Intel Pentium 987
    1759
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    2437

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • Intel Pentium 987
    1060
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    763

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • Intel Pentium 987
    1487
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    1838

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • Intel Pentium 987
    26
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    24.5

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • Intel Pentium 987
    48
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    29

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • Intel Pentium 987
    1107
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    1569

MB/s - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • Intel Pentium 987
    0.1
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    0.73

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • Intel Pentium 987
    0.08
  • Intel Atom Z3740
    0.16

GB/s