Pentium 977 vs Turion II M500

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Aggregate performance score

Turion II M500
2009
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.53
Pentium 977
2012
2 cores / 2 threads, 17 Watt
0.72
+35.8%

Pentium 977 outperforms Turion II M500 by a substantial 36% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Turion II M500 and Pentium 977 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking28472684
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Turion IIIntel Pentium
Power efficiency1.434.01
Architecture codenameCaspian (2009)Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)1 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$134

Detailed specifications

Turion II M500 and Pentium 977 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speedno data1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz1.4 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rate3600 MHz4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplierno data14
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB256K (per core)
L3 cacheno data2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die sizeno data131 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistorsno data504 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Turion II M500 and Pentium 977 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)
SocketSocket S1 (s1g3) 638-pinFCBGA1023
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium 977. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD VirtualizationIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA-+
PowerNow+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
My WiFino data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Demand Based Switchingno data-
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

Turion II M500 and Pentium 977 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium 977 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium 977. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data16.38 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors
Graphics max frequencyno data1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Turion II M500 and Pentium 977 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
SDVOno data+
CRTno data+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium 977.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

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 II M500 0.53
Pentium 977 0.72
+35.8%

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 II M500 1756
+22.4%
Pentium 977 1435

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 II M500 34.76
+61.1%
Pentium 977 56

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Turion II M500 1
+12%
Pentium 977 1

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.53 0.72
Recency 10 September 2009 1 January 2012
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 17 Watt

Pentium 977 has a 35.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 40.6% more advanced lithography process, and 105.9% lower power consumption.

The Pentium 977 is our recommended choice as it beats the Turion II M500 in performance tests.


Should you still have questions on choice between Turion II M500 and Pentium 977, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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