Turion II Ultra M620 vs Pentium Dual T3400
Aggregate performance score
Turion II Ultra M620 outperforms Pentium Dual Core T3400 by a significant 21% 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 | 3278 | 3172 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Intel Pentium Dual Core | AMD Turion II Ultra |
| Designer | Intel | AMD |
| Architecture codename | Merom (2006−2008) | Caspian (2009) |
| Release date | 1 October 2008 (17 years ago) | 10 September 2009 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Turion II Ultra M620 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 | 2.16 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| Bus rate | 667 MHz | 3600 MHz |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
| Die size | 143 mm2 | no data |
| Number of transistors | 291 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Turion II Ultra M620 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 | Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 1 MB | 2 MB |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Turion II Ultra M620. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization |
| PowerNow | - | + |
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.38 | 0.46 |
| Recency | 1 October 2008 | 10 September 2009 |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 45 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 1 Watt | 2 Watt |
Pentium Dual T3400 has 100% lower power consumption.
Turion II Ultra M620, on the other hand, has a 21.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 months, and a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.
The AMD Turion II Ultra M620 is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400 in performance tests.
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