Phenom II X3 P860 vs Athlon II P360

Primary details

Comparing Athlon II P360 and Phenom II X3 P860 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Athlon II3x AMD Phenom II
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date16 December 2010 (13 years ago)4 October 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II P360 and Phenom II X3 P860 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)3 (Tri-Core)
Threads23
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz2 GHz
Bus rate3200 MHz3600 MHz
L1 cache256 KB384 KB
L2 cache1 MB1.5 MB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II P360 and Phenom II X3 P860 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.

SocketS1g4S1
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II P360 and Phenom II X3 P860. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsSSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVMVirtualization, AMD64, Advanced Virus Protection, SSE(1,2,3,4a)
VirusProtect-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II P360 and Phenom II X3 P860 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II P360 and Phenom II X3 P860. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 December 2010 4 October 2010
Physical cores 2 3
Threads 2 3

Athlon II P360 has an age advantage of 2 months.

Phenom II X3 P860, on the other hand, has 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads.

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