Pentium Dual-Core E2180 vs Athlon X2 L310

Primary details

Comparing Athlon X2 L310 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
Series2x AMD Athlonno data
Architecture codenameConesus (2009)Allendale (2006−2009)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)August 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 L310 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Boost clock speed1.2 GHz2 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cache256 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB1 MB (shared)
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography65 nm65 nm
Die sizeno data77 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data105 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 L310 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 configurationno data1
SocketBGA / 638 lidless micro-PGA775
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 L310 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Virtualization, Enhanced Virus Protectionno data
VirusProtect+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 L310 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon X2 L310 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR1, DDR2, DDR3

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.

Athlon X2 L310 329
Pentium Dual-Core E2180 683
+108%

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 65 Watt

Athlon X2 L310 has 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Athlon X2 L310 and Pentium Dual-Core E2180. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon X2 L310 is a notebook processor while Pentium Dual-Core E2180 is a desktop one.


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