Turion II M540 vs Athlon II N370

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	3159	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD Turion II
Power efficiency	0.62	no data
Designer	AMD	AMD
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Caspian (2009)
Release date	16 December 2010 (15 years ago)	10 September 2009 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II N370 and Turion II M540 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	2.5 GHz	2.4 GHz
Bus rate	3200 MHz	3600 MHz
L1 cache	256 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
Die size	117.5 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	234 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II N370 and Turion II M540 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	Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II N370 and Turion II M540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow	-	+
VirusProtect	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II N370 and Turion II M540 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

+

-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II N370 and Turion II M540. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

no data

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

16 December 2010

10 September 2009

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