Athlon X2 QL-64 vs Celeron M 560

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 560 and Athlon X2 QL-64 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Celeron M2x AMD Athlon
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Lion (2008−2009)
Release date1 May 2008 (16 years ago)1 January 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 560 and Athlon X2 QL-64 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 cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads12
Boost clock speed2.13 GHz2.1 GHz
Bus rate533 MHz3600 MHz
L1 cache64 KB256 KB
L2 cache1 MB1 MB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography65 nm65 nm
Die size143 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Number of transistors291 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 560 and Athlon X2 QL-64 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 configurationno data1
SocketPPGA478S1
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 560 and Athlon X2 QL-64. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 560 and Athlon X2 QL-64 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.

Celeron M 560 535
Athlon X2 QL-64 622
+16.3%

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.

Celeron M 560 2008
+24.4%
Athlon X2 QL-64 1614

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.

Celeron M 560 2008
Athlon X2 QL-64 3223
+60.5%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2008 1 January 2009
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 2
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 35 Watt

Celeron M 560 has 16.7% lower power consumption.

Athlon X2 QL-64, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Celeron M 560 and Athlon X2 QL-64. We've got no test results to judge.


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