A4-5050 vs Athlon II M300

Primary details

Comparing Athlon II M300 and A4-5050 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	2574
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD A-Series
Power efficiency	no data	5.26
Architecture codename	Caspian (2009)	Kabini (2013−2014)
Release date	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)	1 February 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II M300 and A4-5050 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	2 (Dual-core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	2	4
Boost clock speed	2 GHz	1.5 GHz
Bus rate	3200 MHz	no data
L1 cache	128 KB	128K (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB	512K (per core)
L3 cache	no data	0 KB
Chip lithography	45 nm	32 nm
Die size	no data	246 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	no data	1,178 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II M300 and A4-5050 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	no data	1
Socket	Socket S1 (S1g3)	FT3
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M300 and A4-5050. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX
AES-NI	-	+
AVX	-	+
PowerNow	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II M300 and A4-5050 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

-

+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II M300 and A4-5050. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon HD 8330

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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Recency	10 September 2009	1 February 2014
Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	45 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

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