Athlon II M340 vs Core 2 Duo E4500

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Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2871
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Athlon II
Power efficiencyno data1.38
Architecture codenameAllendale (2006−2009)Caspian (2009)
Release dateJuly 2007 (17 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.2 GHzno data
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz2.2 GHz
Bus rate800 MHz3200 MHz
L1 cache64 KB128 KB
L2 cache2 MB1 MB
L3 cache0 KBno data
Chip lithography65 nm45 nm
Die size111 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature73 °Cno data
Number of transistors167 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range0.85V-1.5Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340 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 configuration1no data
SocketLGA775Socket S1 (S1g3)
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340. 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-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340 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 Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340 are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR2

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.

Core 2 Duo E4500 734
Athlon II M340 807
+9.9%

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 35 Watt

Athlon II M340 has a 44.4% more advanced lithography process, and 85.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Core 2 Duo E4500 and Athlon II M340. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Core 2 Duo E4500 is a desktop processor while Athlon II M340 is a notebook one.


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