Athlon 64 X2 3600+ vs Turion II P520

Primary details

Comparing Turion II P520 and Athlon 64 X2 3600+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2866	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD Turion II	no data
Power efficiency	1.93	no data
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Manchester (2005−2006)
Release date	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)	31 May 2005 (19 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion II P520 and Athlon 64 X2 3600+ 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	2.3 GHz	2 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	no data
L1 cache	128 KB	128 KB (per core)
L2 cache	2 MB	256 KB (per core)
L3 cache	no data	0 KB
Chip lithography	45 nm	90 nm
Die size	no data	156 mm2
Number of transistors	no data	154 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Turion II P520 and Athlon 64 X2 3600+ 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	no data	1
Socket	S1 (S1g4)	939
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	89 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II P520 and Athlon 64 X2 3600+. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0	no data
VirusProtect	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II P520 and Athlon 64 X2 3600+ are enumerated here.

AMD-V

+

-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II P520 and Athlon 64 X2 3600+. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

DDR1

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 May 2010	31 May 2005
Chip lithography	45 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	89 Watt

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