A6-8500P vs Mobile Pentium 4 538

Primary details

Comparing Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	2520
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Mobile Pentium 4	AMD Carrizo
Power efficiency	no data	5.71
Architecture codename	Prescott (2001−2005)	Carrizo (2015−2018)
Release date	no data (2024 years ago)	3 June 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P 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
Base clock speed	no data	1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.2 GHz	3 GHz
Bus rate	533 MHz	no data
L2 cache	no data	1024 KB
Chip lithography	90 nm	28 nm
Maximum core temperature	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	no data	3100 Million
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P 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	no data	FP4
Power consumption (TDP)	88 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	HSA 1.0
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	-	FMA4
AVX	-	AVX
FRTC	-	+
FreeSync	-	+
TrueAudio	-	+
PowerNow	-	+
PowerGating	-	+
Out-of-band client management	-	+
VirusProtect	-	+
HSA	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
IOMMU 2.0	-	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	no data	Not Listed
Max memory channels	no data	2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	no data	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
iGPU core count	no data	4
Enduro	-	+
Switchable graphics	-	+
UVD	-	+
VCE	-	+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort	-	+
HDMI	-	+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	no data	DirectX® 12
Vulkan	-	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P.

PCIe version

no data

3.0

Pros & cons summary

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Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	90 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	88 Watt	15 Watt

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