Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) vs Athlon II M320

Primary details

Comparing Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1609
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Athlon IIno data
Power efficiencyno data3.11
Architecture codenameCaspian (2009)Thuban (2010)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)1 May 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) 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)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads26
Base clock speedno data2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed2.1 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus rate3200 MHzno data
L1 cache128 KB128 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB512 KB (per core)
L3 cacheno data6 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die sizeno data346 mm2
Number of transistorsno data904 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) 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
SocketSocket S1 (S1g3)AM3
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt95 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W). You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualizationno data
PowerNow+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W). Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W).

PCIe versionno data2.0

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 II M320 749
Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) 4965
+563%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2009 1 May 2010
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 2 6
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 95 Watt

Athlon II M320 has 171.4% lower power consumption.

Phenom II X6 1055T (95W), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, and 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Athlon II M320 and Phenom II X6 1055T (95W). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon II M320 is a notebook processor while Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) is a desktop one.


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