Athlon II Neo K125 vs Core 2 Duo T9900

Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2648not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 DuoAMD Athlon II Neo
Power efficiency2.03no data
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)Geneva (2010)
Release date2 June 2009 (15 years ago)12 May 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$530no data

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125 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 cores2 (Dual-core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads21
Base clock speed3.06 GHzno data
Boost clock speed0.07 GHz1.7 GHz
Bus rate1066 MHz2000 MHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)128 KB
L2 cache6 MB (shared)1 MB
L3 cache6 MB L2 Cacheno data
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die size107 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors410 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.05V-1.2125Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125 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 configuration1no data
SocketBGA479,PGA478S1
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt12 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 3dDNow!, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization
VirusProtect-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125 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 Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2, DDR3DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)no data

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 1187
+277%
Athlon II Neo K125 315

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Core 2 Duo T9900 398
+116%
Athlon II Neo K125 184

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Core 2 Duo T9900 638
+247%
Athlon II Neo K125 184

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 3538
+137%
Athlon II Neo K125 1491

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 2787
+279%
Athlon II Neo K125 735

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Core 2 Duo T9900 25.1
+261%
Athlon II Neo K125 90.7

Pros & cons summary


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

Core 2 Duo T9900 has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Athlon II Neo K125, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, and 191.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon II Neo K125. We've got no test results to judge.


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