A6-8500P vs Mobile Pentium 4 538

Primary details

Comparing Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rankingnot rated2419
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesMobile Pentium 4AMD Carrizo
Architecture codenamePrescott (2001−2005)Carrizo (2015−2018)
Release dateno data3 June 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads12
Base clock speedno data1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz3 GHz
Bus support533 MHzno data
L2 cacheno data1024 KB
Chip lithography90 nm28 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data90 °C
Number of transistorsno data3100 Million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P 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.

Socketno dataFP4
Power consumption (TDP)88 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataHSA 1.0
AES-NIno data1
FMAno dataFMA4
AVXno dataAVX
FRTCno data1
FreeSyncno data1
PowerTuneno data-
TrueAudiono data+
PowerNowno data+
PowerGatingno data+
Out-of-band client managementno data+
VirusProtectno data+
HSAno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P are enumerated here.

AMD-Vno data1
IOMMU 2.0no data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataNot Listed
Max memory channelsno data2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon R5 Graphics
iGPU core countno data4
Endurono data+
Switchable graphicsno data1
UVDno data+
VCEno data+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P integrated GPUs.

DisplayPortno data+
HDMIno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno dataDirectX® 12
Vulkanno data1

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and A6-8500P.

PCIe versionno data3.0

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 2
Chip lithography 90 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 88 Watt 15 Watt

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