Athlon II Neo K325 vs Celeron M 900

Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 900 and Athlon II Neo K325 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Celeron M	AMD Athlon II Neo
Architecture codename	Penryn (2008−2011)	Geneva (2010)
Release date	1 April 2009 (15 years ago)	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$70	no data

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 900 and Athlon II Neo K325 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	2.2 GHz	1.3 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	2000 MHz
L1 cache	no data	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
Die size	107 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	410 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 900 and Athlon II Neo K325 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.

Socket	PGA478	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	12 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 900 and Athlon II Neo K325. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, PowerNow, HyperTransport 3.0
PowerNow	-	+
VirusProtect	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 900 and Athlon II Neo K325 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 900 and Athlon II Neo K325. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 April 2009	12 May 2010
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	12 Watt

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