Athlon X2 QL-66 vs Turion 64 X2 TL-64

Place in the ranking	2961	3002
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	2x AMD Turion 64	2x AMD Athlon
Power efficiency	1.19	1.08
Architecture codename	Trinidad (2006−2007)	Lion (2008−2009)
Release date	13 April 2007 (17 years ago)	1 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion 64 X2 TL-64 and Athlon X2 QL-66 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Boost clock speed	2.2 GHz	2.2 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	3600 MHz
L1 cache	256 KB	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	65 nm	65 nm
Die size	147 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	100 °C
Number of transistors	154 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Turion 64 X2 TL-64 and Athlon X2 QL-66 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.

Socket	S1	S1g2
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion 64 X2 TL-64 and Athlon X2 QL-66. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	65 nm, 1.075	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow	-	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

Turion 64 X2 TL-64 0.44
+10%

Athlon X2 QL-66 0.40

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Turion 64 X2 TL-64 692
+8%

Athlon X2 QL-66 641

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-64 1726
+1.8%

Athlon X2 QL-66 1695

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-64 3201

Athlon X2 QL-66 3320
+3.7%

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.

Turion 64 X2 TL-64 1518

Athlon X2 QL-66 1520
+0.1%