Phenom II X3 P820: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Phenom II X3 P820 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.66% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Phenom II X3 P820 sales 12 May 2010. This is a Champlain architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 3 cores and 3 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1800 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is S1 processor with a TDP of 25 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
Primary details
Phenom II X3 P820 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2756 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | 3x AMD Phenom II | |
| Power efficiency | 2.50 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Champlain (2010−2011) | |
| Release date | 12 May 2010 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 3 (Tri-Core) | |
| Threads | 3 | |
| Boost clock speed | 1.8 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus rate | 3600 MHz | |
| L1 cache | 384 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 1.5 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Phenom II X3 P820 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 | S1 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X3 P820. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Virtualization, AMD64, Advanced Virus Protection, SSE(1,2,3,4a) | |
| VirusProtect | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Phenom II X3 P820's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Phenom II X3 P820. Overall benchmark performance 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.
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.
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
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.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
Send your test results of Phenom II X3 P820.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Phenom II X3 P820 is Celeron 2980U, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Phenom II X3 P820, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Phenom II X3 P820 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 156 configurations using Phenom II X3 P820 in our database.
