Athlon II M360 vs Turion 64 ML-42

Primary details

Comparing Turion 64 ML-42 and Athlon II M360 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	Turion 64	AMD Athlon II
Architecture codename	Lancaster (2005−2006)	Caspian (2009)
Release date	October 2005 (19 years ago)	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion 64 ML-42 and Athlon II M360 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)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	1	2
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.3 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	3200 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	90 nm	45 nm
Die size	125 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	114 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Turion 64 ML-42 and Athlon II M360 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	754	Socket S1 (S1g3)
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion 64 ML-42 and Athlon II M360. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow	+	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion 64 ML-42 and Athlon II M360. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR2

Pros & cons summary

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Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	90 nm	45 nm

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