Athlon II Neo K125: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Athlon II Neo K125 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.20% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Athlon II Neo K125 sales 12 May 2010. This is a Geneva architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1700 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is S1 processor with a TDP of 12 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Athlon II Neo K125 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 3235 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Athlon II Neo | |
| Power efficiency | 1.58 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Geneva (2010) | |
| Release date | 12 May 2010 (14 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 | 1 (Single-Core) | |
| Threads | 1 | |
| Boost clock speed | 1.7 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus rate | 2000 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 Neo K125 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 | S1 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 12 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon II Neo K125. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | MMX, 3dDNow!, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization | |
| VirusProtect | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon II Neo K125's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon II Neo K125. 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.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
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.
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.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon II Neo K125 is Atom N2600, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon II Neo K125, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon II Neo K125 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 30 configurations using Athlon II Neo K125 in our database.
