Athlon X2 L310 vs Celeron M 585

Place in the ranking	2977	3216
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Celeron M	2x AMD Athlon
Power efficiency	1.31	1.53
Architecture codename	Merom (2006−2008)	Conesus (2009)
Release date	20 August 2008 (16 years ago)	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$70	no data

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 585 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	1 (Single-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	1	2
Boost clock speed	2.16 GHz	1.2 GHz
Bus rate	667 MHz	800 MHz
L1 cache	no data	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	65 nm	65 nm
Die size	143 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	291 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 585 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.

Socket	PPGA478	BGA / 638 lidless micro-PGA
Power consumption (TDP)	31 Watt	13 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 585 and Athlon X2 L310. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Virtualization, Enhanced Virus Protection
VirusProtect	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 585 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.

Celeron M 585 0.43
+105%

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.

Celeron M 585 678
+102%

Athlon X2 L310 335

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 585 2062
+109%

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.

Celeron M 585 2062
+18%

Athlon X2 L310 1747

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.43	0.21
Recency	20 August 2008	10 September 2009
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Power consumption (TDP)	31 Watt	13 Watt

Celeron M 585 has a 104.8% higher aggregate performance score.

Athlon X2 L310, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and 138.5% lower power consumption.

The Celeron M 585 is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon X2 L310 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Celeron M 585 and Athlon X2 L310, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.