Athlon X2 QL-66 vs A6-5350M

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Primary details

Comparing A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2630not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD A-Series2x AMD Athlon
Power efficiency2.08no data
Architecture codenameRichland (2013−2014)Lion (2008−2009)
Release date1 June 2013 (11 years ago)1 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.9 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.5 GHz2.2 GHz
Bus rateno data3600 MHz
L1 cacheno data256 KB
L2 cache2048 KB1 MB
L3 cache0 KBno data
Chip lithography32 nm65 nm
Die size246 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)71 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1no data
SocketFS1r2S1g2
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMAMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-
PowerNow-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-1600no data
Max memory channels2no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon HD 8450Gno data
Enduro+-
Switchable graphics+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66 integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 11no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A6-5350M and Athlon X2 QL-66.

PCIe versionNot Listedno data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

A6-5350M 1221
+90.5%
Athlon X2 QL-66 641

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

A6-5350M 2481
+46.3%
Athlon X2 QL-66 1695

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

A6-5350M 3956
+19.2%
Athlon X2 QL-66 3320

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

A6-5350M 1649
+8.5%
Athlon X2 QL-66 1520

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2013 1 September 2009
Chip lithography 32 nm 65 nm

A6-5350M has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 103.1% more advanced lithography process.

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