Athlon II N370 vs Celeron M 390

Place in the ranking	3258	2833
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Celeron M	AMD Athlon II
Power efficiency	0.81	1.53
Architecture codename	Dothan (2004−2005)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	no data	16 December 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 390 and Athlon II N370 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	1 (Single-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	1	2
Base clock speed	1.7 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1.7 GHz	2.5 GHz
Bus rate	400 MHz	3200 MHz
L1 cache	no data	256 KB
L2 cache	no data	1 MB
L3 cache	1 MB L2 KB	no data
Chip lithography	90 nm	45 nm
Die size	no data	117.5 mm²
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	no data
Number of transistors	no data	234 Million
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	1.004V-1.292V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 390 and Athlon II N370 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.

Socket	PPGA478, H-PBGA479	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	21 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 390 and Athlon II N370. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization
VirusProtect	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	-	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	-	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
PAE	32 Bit	no data
FSB parity	-	no data

Security technologies

Celeron M 390 and Athlon II N370 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 390 and Athlon II N370 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-x	-	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 390 and Athlon II N370. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR3

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.18	0.57
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	90 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	21 Watt	35 Watt

Celeron M 390 has 66.7% lower power consumption.

Athlon II N370, on the other hand, has a 216.7% higher aggregate performance score, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Athlon II N370 is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron M 390 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Celeron M 390 and Athlon II N370, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.