Athlon X2 L310 vs Athlon X2 QL-65

Place in the ranking	3009	3213
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	2x AMD Athlon	2x AMD Athlon
Power efficiency	1.03	1.53
Architecture codename	Lion (2008−2009)	Conesus (2009)
Release date	1 September 2009 (15 years ago)	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon X2 L310 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)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Boost clock speed	2.1 GHz	1.2 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	800 MHz
L1 cache	256 KB	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	65 nm	65 nm
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	95 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon X2 L310 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	S1g2	BGA / 638 lidless micro-PGA
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	13 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon X2 L310. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	65 nm, 1.075 - 1.125	MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Virtualization, Enhanced Virus Protection
PowerNow	+	-
VirusProtect	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon X2 L310 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-65 0.38
+81%

Athlon X2 L310 0.21

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-65 609
+85.1%

Athlon X2 L310 329

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-65 1630
+65.1%

Athlon X2 L310 987

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Athlon X2 QL-65 3213
+83.9%

Athlon X2 L310 1747

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-65 1489
+71.9%

Athlon X2 L310 866

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-65 39
+168%

Athlon X2 L310 104.35