C-60 vs Athlon X2 L310

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon X2 L310 and C-60 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
Series2x AMD AthlonAMD C-Series
Architecture codenameConesus (2009)Ontario (2011−2012)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)22 August 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 L310 and C-60 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speedno data1 GHz
Boost clock speed1.2 GHz1.33 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cache256 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB512K (per core)
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography65 nm40 nm
Die sizeno data75 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 L310 and C-60 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
SocketBGA / 638 lidless micro-PGAFT1 BGA 413-Ball
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt9 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 L310 and C-60. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Virtualization, Enhanced Virus ProtectionMMX(+), SSE(1,2,3,3S,4A), AMD-V, Radeon HD 6290 (276-400 MHz)
VirusProtect+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 L310 and C-60 are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon X2 L310 and C-60. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3 Single-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon HD 6290

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 X2 L310 329
+4.1%
C-60 316

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Athlon X2 L310 116
+52.6%
C-60 76

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Athlon X2 L310 199
+44.2%
C-60 138

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 X2 L310 987
+28.6%
C-60 768

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Athlon X2 L310 1747
+17.8%
C-60 1483

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 X2 L310 866
+15%
C-60 753

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Athlon X2 L310 104.35
C-60 86.15
+21.1%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2009 22 August 2011
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 9 Watt

C-60 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 44.4% lower power consumption.

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