Pentium N3540 vs Turion 64 X2 TL-60

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Primary details

Comparing Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2643
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series2x AMD Turion 64Intel Pentium
Power efficiencyno data9.59
Architecture codenameTrinidad/Tyler (2007)Bay Trail-M (2013−2014)
Release date4 May 2007 (17 years ago)22 May 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$251

Detailed specifications

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540 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 cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads24
Base clock speedno data2.16 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz2.66 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cache256 KB224 KB
L2 cache1 MB2 MB
L3 cacheno data2 MB L2 Cache
Chip lithography90 nm22 nm
Die size147 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature95 °C100 °C
Number of transistors154 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540 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
SocketS1FCBGA1170
Power consumption (TDP)35/31 Watt7.5 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions90/65 nm, 1.075no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Smart Connectno data+

Security technologies

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3L-1333
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data21.32 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for Intel Atom® Processor Z3700 Series
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data896 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data11.2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Turion 64 X2 TL-60 and Pentium N3540.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data4
USB revisionno data3.0 and 2.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data5

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 184
Pentium N3540 192
+4.3%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 346
Pentium N3540 548
+58.4%

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.

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 1619
+18.7%
Pentium N3540 1364

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.

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 3130
Pentium N3540 4752
+51.8%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 39
Pentium N3540 21.92
+77.9%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 May 2007 22 May 2014
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 90 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 7 Watt

Pentium N3540 has an age advantage of 7 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 309.1% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

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