Athlon II M360 vs Xeon E5502

Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2855not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentServerLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Athlon II
Power efficiency0.63no data
Architecture codenameGainestown (2009−2010)Caspian (2009)
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$95no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360 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 speed1.86 GHzno data
Boost clock speed1.87 GHz2.3 GHz
Bus rateno data3200 MHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)128 KB
L2 cache256 KB (per core)1 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)no data
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die size263 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature76 °Cno data
Number of transistors731 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360 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 configuration2no data
SocketFCLGA1366,PLGA1366Socket S1 (S1g3)
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Demand Based Switching+no data
PAE40 Bitno data

Security technologies

Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360 are enumerated here.

VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR2
Maximum memory size144 GBno data
Max memory channels3no data
Maximum memory bandwidth19.2 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardN/Ano data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360.

PCIe version2.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2009 10 September 2009
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 35 Watt

Athlon II M360 has an age advantage of 5 months, and 128.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon E5502 and Athlon II M360. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon E5502 is a server/workstation processor while Athlon II M360 is a notebook one.


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