C-50 vs Pentium M 730

Place in the ranking	3259	3269
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Pentium M	AMD C-Series
Power efficiency	0.60	1.79
Architecture codename	Dothan (2004−2005)	Ontario (2011−2012)
Release date	19 January 2005 (19 years ago)	4 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium M 730 and C-50 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	1 (Single-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	1	2
Base clock speed	1.6 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1.6 GHz	1 GHz
Bus rate	533 MHz	no data
L1 cache	32 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	2 MB	512K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	0 KB
Chip lithography	90 nm	40 nm
Die size	87 mm²	75 mm²
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	no data
Number of transistors	144 million	no data
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	1.26V-1.356V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 730 and C-50 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 configuration	1	1
Socket	PPGA478, H-PBGA479	FT1 BGA 413-Ball
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	9 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 730 and C-50. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX(+), SSE(1,2,3,3S,4A), AMD-V
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	-	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
PAE	32 Bit	no data
FSB parity	-	no data

Security technologies

Pentium M 730 and C-50 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 Pentium M 730 and C-50 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-x	-	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 730 and C-50. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2

DDR3 Single-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

AMD Radeon HD 6250

Synthetic benchmark performance

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. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium M 730 0.17

C-50 0.17

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.

Pentium M 730 663
+4.3%

C-50 636

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.

Pentium M 730 108
+3%

C-50 111.2

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Recency	19 January 2005	4 January 2011
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	90 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	9 Watt

C-50 has an age advantage of 5 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Pentium M 730 and C-50.

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium M 730 and C-50, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.