Turion II P560 vs Pentium Dual T2390
Aggregate performance score
Turion II P560 outperforms Pentium Dual Core T2390 by an impressive 68% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3350 | 3106 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Intel Pentium Dual Core | AMD Turion II |
| Designer | Intel | AMD |
| Architecture codename | Merom (2006−2008) | Champlain (2010−2011) |
| Release date | 1 March 2008 (17 years ago) | 19 October 2010 (15 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium Dual Core T2390 and Turion II P560 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 | 1.86 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| Bus rate | 533 MHz | 3600 MHz |
| L1 cache | no data | 265 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
| Die size | 143 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 291 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium Dual Core T2390 and Turion II P560 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 | PPGA478 | S1 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 1 MB | 2 MB |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T2390 and Turion II P560. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | MMX, 3DNow!, SSE(1,2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0 |
| VirusProtect | - | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Dual Core T2390 and Turion II P560 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | - | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Dual Core T2390 and Turion II P560. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | no data | DDR3 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.31 | 0.52 |
| Recency | 1 March 2008 | 19 October 2010 |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 1 Watt | 2 Watt |
Pentium Dual T2390 has 100% lower power consumption.
Turion II P560, on the other hand, has a 67.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.
The AMD Turion II P560 is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 in performance tests.
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