Athlon II M340: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Athlon II M340 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.51% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Athlon II M340 sales 10 September 2009. This is a Caspian architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2200 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is Socket S1 (S1g3) processor with a TDP of 35 Watt. It supports DDR2 memory.
Primary details
Athlon II M340 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2885 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Athlon II | |
| Power efficiency | 1.38 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Caspian (2009) | |
| Release date | 10 September 2009 (15 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Boost clock speed | 2.2 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus rate | 3200 MHz | |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon II M340 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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.
| Socket | Socket S1 (S1g3) | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M340. 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 | |
| PowerNow | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon II M340's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR2 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon II M340. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon II M340 is Pentium 997, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon II M340, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon II M340 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 41 configurations using Athlon II M340 in our database.
