Athlon 64 TF-20 vs Pentium M 725

Primary details

Comparing Pentium M 725 and Athlon 64 TF-20 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Pentium M	AMD Athlon 64
Architecture codename	Dothan (2004−2005)	Sherman (2009)
Release date	23 June 2004 (20 years ago)	1 May 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium M 725 and Athlon 64 TF-20 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	1.6 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1.6 GHz	1.6 GHz
Bus rate	400 MHz	667 MHz
L1 cache	32 KB	0.1 MB
L2 cache	2 MB	512 KB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	90 nm	65 nm
Die size	87 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	144 million	no data
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	0.988V-1.34V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 725 and Athlon 64 TF-20 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	no data
Socket	PPGA478	S1g1
Power consumption (TDP)	7.5 Watt	25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 725 and Athlon 64 TF-20. 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
VirusProtect	-	+
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 M 725 and Athlon 64 TF-20 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 M 725 and Athlon 64 TF-20 are enumerated here.

VT-x

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 725 and Athlon 64 TF-20. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2

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Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

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Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 June 2004	1 May 2009
Chip lithography	90 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	7 Watt	25 Watt

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