Turion II P540 vs Athlon 64 X2 4800+

Place in the ranking	2976	2806
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	2x Athlon 64 (Desktop)	AMD Turion II
Power efficiency	0.63	2.27
Architecture codename	Windsor (2006−2007)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	no data	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon 64 X2 (Desktop) 4800+ and Turion II P540 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	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Bus rate	1000 MHz	3600 MHz
L1 cache	256K	128 KB
L2 cache	512K	2 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	90 nm	45 nm
Die size	220 mm²	no data
Number of transistors	233 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 X2 (Desktop) 4800+ and Turion II P540 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	1	no data
Socket	939	S1 (S1g4)
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 64 X2 (Desktop) 4800+ and Turion II P540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 64 X2 (Desktop) 4800+ and Turion II P540 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 64 X2 (Desktop) 4800+ and Turion II P540. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR3

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.

Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 0.43

Turion II P540 0.60
+39.5%

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.

Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 679

Turion II P540 954
+40.5%

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.

Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 1798

Turion II P540 2047
+13.8%