Athlon X2 QL-60: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Athlon X2 QL-60 sales 3 June 2008. This is a Lion architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1900 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket S1 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt.
General info
Athlon X2 QL-60 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | 2x AMD Athlon | |
| Architecture codename | Lion (2008−2009) | |
| Release date | 3 June 2008 (15 years ago) | |
| Current price | $8.83 | of 15701 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Boost clock speed | 1.9 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus support | 3600 MHz | |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | of 96 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 786432 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon X2 QL-60 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | S1 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-60. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization | |
| PowerNow | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon X2 QL-60. Overall benchmark performance 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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 20%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
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.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
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