Celeron M 540 vs Athlon X2 QL-60

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon X2 QL-60 and Celeron M 540 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 segmentLaptopLaptop
Series2x AMD AthlonCeleron M
Architecture codenameLion (2008−2009)Merom (2006−2008)
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)1 October 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 QL-60 and Celeron M 540 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)1 (Single-Core)
Threads21
Boost clock speed1.9 GHz1.86 GHz
Bus rate3600 MHz533 MHz
L1 cache256 KBno data
L2 cache1 MB1 MB
L3 cache0 KBno data
Chip lithography65 nm65 nm
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 QL-60 and Celeron M 540 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 configuration1no data
SocketS1no data
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt30 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-60 and Celeron M 540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualizationno data
PowerNow+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 QL-60 and Celeron M 540 are enumerated here.

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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 QL-60 547
+0.9%
Celeron M 540 542

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.

Athlon X2 QL-60 1273
Celeron M 540 1744
+37%

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.

Athlon X2 QL-60 1352
+68.5%
Celeron M 540 803

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 1 October 2007
Physical cores 2 1
Threads 2 1
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 30 Watt

Athlon X2 QL-60 has an age advantage of 8 months, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Celeron M 540, on the other hand, has 16.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Athlon X2 QL-60 and Celeron M 540. We've got no test results to judge.


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