Athlon 300U vs Pentium D 945

Primary details

Comparing Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	1756
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Athlon
Power efficiency	no data	15.33
Architecture codename	Presler (2005−2007)	Raven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date	23 July 2006 (18 years ago)	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$163	no data

Detailed specifications

Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	3.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.4 GHz	3.3 GHz
Bus type	no data	PCIe 3.0
Multiplier	no data	24
L1 cache	16 KB (per core)	128K (per core)
L2 cache	2 MB (per die)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm
Die size	2x 81 mm2	209.78 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	63 °C	no data
Number of transistors	376 million	4940 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
VID voltage range	1.2V-1.3375V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U 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 configuration	1	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	LGA775,PLGA775	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI	-	+
AVX	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
PAE	32 Bit	no data
FSB parity	-	no data

Security technologies

Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U 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 Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-d	-	no data
VT-x	-	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR1, DDR2, DDR3	DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size	no data	64 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium D 945 and Athlon 300U.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 July 2006	6 January 2019
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	15 Watt

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