A4-1250 vs Pentium M 780

Primary details

Comparing Pentium M 780 and A4-1250 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 M	AMD A-Series
Architecture codename	Dothan (2004−2005)	Temash (2013)
Release date	25 July 2005 (19 years ago)	23 May 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium M 780 and A4-1250 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	2.26 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	0.03 GHz	1 GHz
Bus rate	533 MHz	no data
L1 cache	32 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	0 KB
Chip lithography	90 nm	28 nm
Die size	87 mm2	246 mm2
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	144 million	1,178 million
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	1.26V-1.404V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 780 and A4-1250 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	FT3
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	9 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 780 and A4-1250. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX
AES-NI	-	+
AVX	-	+
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
Status	Discontinued	no data

Security technologies

Pentium M 780 and A4-1250 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 780 and A4-1250 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-x	-	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 780 and A4-1250. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

AMD Radeon HD 8210

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	25 July 2005	23 May 2013
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	90 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	9 Watt

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