Turion II M540 vs Celeron 827E

Primary details

Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	3502	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Celeron	AMD Turion II
Power efficiency	0.52	no data
Designer	Intel	AMD
Architecture codename	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)	Caspian (2009)
Release date	no data	10 September 2009 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$89	no data

Detailed specifications

Celeron 827E and Turion II M540 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	1 (Single-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	1	2
Boost clock speed	1.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Bus type	DMI 2.0	no data
Bus rate	4 × 5 GT/s	3600 MHz
Multiplier	14	no data
L1 cache	64 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	256 KB	1 MB
L3 cache	1.5 MB	no data
Chip lithography	32 nm	45 nm
Die size	131 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	504 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 827E and Turion II M540 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 (Uniprocessor)	no data
Socket	no data	Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin
Power consumption (TDP)	17 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 827E and Turion II M540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
FMA	+	-
PowerNow	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron 827E and Turion II M540 are enumerated here.

VT-x

+

no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron 827E and Turion II M540. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3-1066	no data
Maximum memory size	16 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	21.335 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

no data

Pros & cons summary

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Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	32 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	17 Watt	35 Watt