AMD Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ vs Intel Celeron M 520

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General info

Comparing Celeron M 520 and Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesCeleron MMobile Athlon 64
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Oakville (2003−2004)
Release dateno dataAugust 2004 (19 years old)
Current price$140 no data

Technical specs

Celeron M 520 and Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ 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 cores1 (Single-Core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads11
Base clock speed1.6 GHzno data
Boost clock speed1.6 GHz1.8 GHz
Bus support533 MHz800 MHz
L1 cacheno data128K
L2 cacheno data512K
L3 cache1 MB L2 Cacheno data
Chip lithography65 nmno data
Die sizeno data193 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data95 °C
Number of transistorsno data106 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierNoNo
VID voltage range0.95V-1.3Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 520 and Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ 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
SocketPPGA478754
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 520 and Mobile Athlon 64 2800+. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data
StatusDiscontinuedno data

Security technologies

Celeron M 520 and Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 520 and Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ are enumerated here.

VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 520 and Mobile Athlon 64 2800+. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR1

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Celeron M 520 239
Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ 440
+84.1%

Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ outperforms Celeron M 520 by 84% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 35 Watt

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