Turion II N570 vs Turion II P520

Primary details

Comparing Turion II P520 and Turion II N570 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2861	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Turion II	AMD Turion II
Power efficiency	1.93	no data
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)	16 December 2010 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion II P520 and Turion II N570 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	2.7 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	3600 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	265 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	2 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Turion II P520 and Turion II N570 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 (S1g4)	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II P520 and Turion II N570. 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	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE(1,2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0
VirusProtect	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II P520 and Turion II N570 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II P520 and Turion II N570. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

DDR3

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 May 2010	16 December 2010
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

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