Mobile Sempron SI-42 vs Athlon X2 QL-64

Place in the ranking	3004	3192
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	2x AMD Athlon	AMD Mobile Sempron
Power efficiency	1.05	0.83
Architecture codename	Lion (2008−2009)	Sable (2008−2009)
Release date	1 January 2009 (15 years ago)	1 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 QL-64 and Mobile Sempron SI-42 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)	1 (Single-Core)
Threads	2	1
Boost clock speed	2.1 GHz	2.1 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	1800 MHz
L1 cache	256 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	512 KB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	65 nm	65 nm
Maximum core temperature	no data	100 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 QL-64 and Mobile Sempron SI-42 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	1	no data
Socket	S1	S1g2
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-64 and Mobile Sempron SI-42. 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	65 nm, 1.075 - 1.125
PowerNow	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 QL-64 and Mobile Sempron SI-42 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

Athlon X2 QL-64 0.39
+77.3%

Mobile Sempron SI-42 0.22

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-64 1468
+86.5%

Mobile Sempron SI-42 787

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Athlon X2 QL-64 42.8
+77.6%

Mobile Sempron SI-42 76