Celeron M 540 vs Athlon Neo X2 L335

Place in the ranking	3086	3073
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	2x AMD Athlon Neo	Celeron M
Power efficiency	1.74	1.07
Architecture codename	Congo (2009)	Merom (2006−2008)
Release date	1 October 2009 (15 years ago)	1 October 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Neo X2 L335 and Celeron M 540 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)	1 (Single-Core)
Threads	2	1
Boost clock speed	1.6 GHz	1.86 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	533 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	no data
L2 cache	512 KB	1 MB
Chip lithography	65 nm	65 nm
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Neo X2 L335 and Celeron M 540 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	ASB1 BGA	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	18 Watt	30 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Neo X2 L335 and Celeron M 540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	HT 3.0, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization	no data
VirusProtect	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Neo X2 L335 and Celeron M 540 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Neo X2 L335 and Celeron M 540. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2

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.

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.

Athlon Neo X2 L335 0.33

Celeron M 540 0.34
+3%

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 Neo X2 L335 529

Celeron M 540 542
+2.5%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Athlon Neo X2 L335 1331

Celeron M 540 1744
+31%

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 Neo X2 L335 1155
+43.9%

Celeron M 540 803