Turion II P560 vs Athlon II X2 245

Primary details

Comparing Athlon II X2 245 and Turion II P560 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	2668	2794
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.89	no data
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Turion II
Architecture codename	Regor (2009−2013)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	23 July 2009 (15 years ago)	19 October 2010 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$35	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Athlon II X2 245 and Turion II P560 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
Base clock speed	2.9 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.9 GHz	2.5 GHz
Bus rate	no data	3600 MHz
L1 cache	256 KB	265 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	2 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
Die size	117 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	410 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II X2 245 and Turion II P560 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	AM3	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II X2 245 and Turion II P560. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE(1,2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0
VirusProtect	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II X2 245 and Turion II P560 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

-

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II X2 245 and Turion II P560. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II X2 245 and Turion II P560.

PCIe version

2.0

no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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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.

Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	0.72	0.57
Recency	23 July 2009	19 October 2010
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	25 Watt

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