Mobile Pentium 4 HT 538 vs Athlon X2 QL-65

Primary details

Comparing Athlon X2 QL-65 and Mobile Pentium 4 HT 538 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series2x AMD Athlonno data
Architecture codenameLion (2008−2009)Prescott (2001−2005)
Release date1 September 2009 (15 years ago)June 2004 (20 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 QL-65 and Mobile Pentium 4 HT 538 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)
Threads22
Boost clock speed2.1 GHz3.2 GHz
Bus rate3600 MHzno data
L1 cache256 KB8 KB
L2 cache1 MB1 MB
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography65 nm90 nm
Die sizeno data112 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data75 °C
Number of transistorsno data125 million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 QL-65 and Mobile Pentium 4 HT 538 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 configuration11
SocketS1g2478
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt88 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Mobile Pentium 4 HT 538. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions65 nm, 1.075 - 1.125no data
PowerNow+-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Mobile Pentium 4 HT 538 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Mobile Pentium 4 HT 538. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR1, DDR2

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 1
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 88 Watt

Athlon X2 QL-65 has 100% more physical cores, a 38.5% more advanced lithography process, and 151.4% lower power consumption.

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