Athlon II M340 vs Athlon X2 QL-65

Place in the ranking	3025	2886
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	2x AMD Athlon	AMD Athlon II
Power efficiency	1.03	1.38
Architecture codename	Lion (2008−2009)	Caspian (2009)
Release date	1 September 2009 (15 years ago)	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon II M340 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
Boost clock speed	2.1 GHz	2.2 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	3200 MHz
L1 cache	256 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	65 nm	45 nm
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon II M340 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	S1g2	Socket S1 (S1g3)
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon II M340. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	65 nm, 1.075 - 1.125	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon II M340 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon II M340. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR2

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 X2 QL-65 0.38

Athlon II M340 0.51
+34.2%

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 QL-65 609

Athlon II M340 807
+32.5%