Celeron 847 vs Athlon 64 X2 TK-55

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series2x Athlon 64Intel Celeron
Architecture codenameTaylor / Hawk-256Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)19 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$134

Detailed specifications

Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847 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 data1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed1.8 GHz1.1 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rate667 MHz4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplierno data11
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cacheno data256K (per core)
L3 cacheno data2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 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 Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847 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)
Socketno dataFCBGA1023
Power consumption (TDP)31 Watt17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
FMA-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no 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

Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data16 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 (Sandy Bridge)
Graphics max frequencyno data800 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847 integrated GPUs.

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

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 and Celeron 847.

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.



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 TK-55 518
+7.9%
Celeron 847 480

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 TK-55 1316
+32.6%
Celeron 847 993

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 31 Watt 17 Watt

Celeron 847 has a 103.1% more advanced lithography process, and 82.4% lower power consumption.

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