Athlon II Neo K345 vs Pentium Dual Core T2330
Primary details
Comparing Pentium Dual Core T2330 and Athlon II Neo K345 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Pentium Dual Core | AMD Athlon II Neo |
| Architecture codename | Merom (2006−2008) | Champlain (2010−2011) |
| Release date | no data | 18 December 2010 (13 years ago) |
| Current price | $53 | no data |
Detailed specifications
Pentium Dual Core T2330 and Athlon II Neo K345 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 | 2 (Dual-core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 2 | 2 |
| Boost clock speed | 1.6 GHz | 1.4 GHz |
| Bus support | 533 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| L1 cache | no data | 256 KB |
| L2 cache | no data | 1 MB |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
| Unlocked multiplier | No | No |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium Dual Core T2330 and Athlon II Neo K345 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 | no data | S1 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 12 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T2330 and Athlon II Neo K345. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | DDR3 memory controller, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, PowerNow, HyperTransport 3.0 |
| PowerNow | no data | + |
| VirusProtect | no data | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Dual Core T2330 and Athlon II Neo K345 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | no data | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Dual Core T2330 and Athlon II Neo K345. 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.
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%
Pentium Dual Core T2330 outperforms Athlon II Neo K345 by 3% in Passmark.
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.
Benchmark coverage: 20%
Pentium Dual Core T2330 outperforms Athlon II Neo K345 by 29% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
Pentium Dual Core T2330 outperforms Athlon II Neo K345 by 20% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.
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.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
Pentium Dual Core T2330 outperforms Athlon II Neo K345 by 14% in 3DMark06 CPU.
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.
Benchmark coverage: 18%
Athlon II Neo K345 outperforms Pentium Dual Core T2330 by 6% in wPrime 32.
Pros & cons summary
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 12 Watt |
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