Athlon Neo MV-40 vs Core 2 Solo SU3500

Place in the ranking	3268	3260
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Solo	AMD Athlon Neo
Power efficiency	2.93	1.07
Architecture codename	Penryn (2008−2011)	Huron (2009)
Release date	1 April 2009 (15 years ago)	6 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$262	no data

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Solo SU3500 and Athlon Neo MV-40 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)	1 (Single-Core)
Threads	1	1
Base clock speed	1.3 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1.4 GHz	1.6 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	1600 MHz
L1 cache	64 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	3 MB	512 KB
L3 cache	3 MB	no data
Chip lithography	45 nm	65 nm
Die size	107 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	410 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	1.05V-1.15V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Solo SU3500 and Athlon Neo MV-40 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	BGA956	ASB1
Power consumption (TDP)	5.5 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Solo SU3500 and Athlon Neo MV-40. 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
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
FSB parity	-	no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Solo SU3500 and Athlon Neo MV-40 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB

no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Solo SU3500 and Athlon Neo MV-40 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.

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.

Core 2 Solo SU3500 0.17

Athlon Neo MV-40 0.17

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.

Core 2 Solo SU3500 1468
+15.2%

Athlon Neo MV-40 1274

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Core 2 Solo SU3500 654
+6.4%

Athlon Neo MV-40 614

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Core 2 Solo SU3500 112.25

Athlon Neo MV-40 102
+10%