Pentium U5600 vs Phenom II X3 P820

Primary details

Comparing Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2738not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series3x AMD Phenom IIIntel Pentium
Power efficiency2.49no data
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Arrandale (2010−2011)
Release date12 May 2010 (14 years ago)9 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600 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
Base clock speedno data1.33 GHz
Boost clock speed1.8 GHz1.33 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 1.0
Bus rate3600 MHz1 × 2.5 GT/s
Multiplierno data10
L1 cache384 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache1.5 MB256K (per core)
L3 cacheno data3 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die sizeno data81+114 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistorsno data384 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketS1Intel BGA1288
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt18 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsVirtualization, AMD64, Advanced Virus Protection, SSE(1,2,3,4a)no data
FMA-+
VirusProtect+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
PAEno data36 Bit
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data12.799 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for Previous Generation Intel® Processors
Clear Videono data+
Graphics max frequencyno data500 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Phenom II X3 P820 and Pentium U5600.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2010 9 January 2011
Physical cores 3 2
Threads 3 2
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 18 Watt

Phenom II X3 P820 has 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads.

Pentium U5600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, a 40.6% more advanced lithography process, and 38.9% lower power consumption.

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