Athlon II M300 vs Phenom II X3 P820

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Primary details

Comparing Phenom II X3 P820 and Athlon II M300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2732not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series3x AMD Phenom IIAMD Athlon II
Power efficiency2.52no data
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Caspian (2009)
Release date12 May 2010 (14 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X3 P820 and Athlon II M300 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 cores3 (Tri-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads32
Boost clock speed1.8 GHz2 GHz
Bus rate3600 MHz3200 MHz
L1 cache384 KB128 KB
L2 cache1.5 MB1 MB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X3 P820 and Athlon II M300 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.

SocketS1Socket S1 (S1g3)
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Athlon II M300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsVirtualization, AMD64, Advanced Virus Protection, SSE(1,2,3,4a)MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow-+
VirusProtect+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Athlon II M300 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Athlon II M300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR2

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Phenom II X3 P820 1560
Athlon II M300 1700
+9%

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.

Phenom II X3 P820 4169
+25.6%
Athlon II M300 3319

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.

Phenom II X3 P820 2043
+31.7%
Athlon II M300 1552

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2010 10 September 2009
Physical cores 3 2
Threads 3 2
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 35 Watt

Phenom II X3 P820 has an age advantage of 8 months, 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads, and 40% lower power consumption.

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