Athlon X2 L310 vs Core 2 Duo T5300

Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo T5300 and Athlon X2 L310 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
SeriesCore 2 Duo2x AMD Athlon
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Conesus (2009)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T5300 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed1.73 GHzno data
Boost clock speed1.73 GHz1.2 GHz
Bus rate533 MHz800 MHz
L1 cacheno data256 KB
L2 cacheno data1 MB
L3 cache2 MB L2 Cacheno data
Chip lithography65 nm65 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °C95 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T5300 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.

SocketPPGA478BGA / 638 lidless micro-PGA
Power consumption (TDP)34 Watt13 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T5300 and Athlon X2 L310. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Virtualization, Enhanced Virus Protection
VirusProtect-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T5300 and Athlon X2 L310 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 T5300 and Athlon X2 L310 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-x-no data

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 T5300 530
+61.1%
Athlon X2 L310 329

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 34 Watt 13 Watt

Athlon X2 L310 has 161.5% lower power consumption.

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