Athlon II M340 vs Pentium Dual T2390

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Dual Core T2390 and Athlon II M340 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2866
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium Dual CoreAMD Athlon II
Power efficiencyno data1.38
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Caspian (2009)
Release date1 March 2008 (16 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Dual Core T2390 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
Boost clock speed1.86 GHz2.2 GHz
Bus rate533 MHz3200 MHz
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache1 MB1 MB
Chip lithography65 nm45 nm
Die size143 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Number of transistors291 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Dual Core T2390 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.

SocketPPGA478Socket S1 (S1g3)
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T2390 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-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Dual Core T2390 and Athlon II M340. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR2

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.

Pentium Dual T2390 568
Athlon II M340 807
+42.1%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2008 10 September 2009
Chip lithography 65 nm 45 nm

Athlon II M340 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.

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Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390
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