Pentium Dual-Core E2180 vs A8-4500M

Primary details

Comparing A8-4500M and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2417	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD A-Series	no data
Power efficiency	2.87	no data
Architecture codename	Trinity (2012−2013)	Allendale (2006−2009)
Release date	15 May 2012 (12 years ago)	August 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A8-4500M and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	1.9 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.8 GHz	2 GHz
L1 cache	192 KB	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	4 MB (shared)	1 MB (shared)
L3 cache	0 KB	0 KB
Chip lithography	32 nm	65 nm
Die size	246 mm2	77 mm2
Number of transistors	1,178 million	105 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on A8-4500M and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 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 configuration	1	1
Socket	FS1r2	775
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-4500M and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMA	no data
AES-NI	+	-
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-4500M and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-4500M and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

unknown

DDR1, DDR2, DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon HD 7640G

no 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.

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Pros & cons summary

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Physical cores	4	2
Threads	4	2
Chip lithography	32 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	65 Watt

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