Athlon II Neo K125 vs Pentium U5600

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel PentiumAMD Athlon II Neo
Architecture codenameArrandale (2010−2011)Geneva (2010)
Release date9 January 2011 (13 years ago)12 May 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125 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 cores2 (Dual-core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads21
Base clock speed1.33 GHzno data
Boost clock speed1.33 GHz1.7 GHz
Bus typeDMI 1.0no data
Bus rate1 × 2.5 GT/s2000 MHz
Multiplier10no data
L1 cache64K (per core)128 KB
L2 cache256K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache3 MB (shared)no data
Chip lithography32 nm45 nm
Die size81+114 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors384 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)no data
SocketIntel BGA1288S1
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt12 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 3dDNow!, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization
FMA+-
VirusProtect-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Flex Memory Access+no data
PAE36 Bitno data
FDI+no data
Fast Memory Access+no data

Security technologies

Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125 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 U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d-no data
VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3
Maximum memory size8 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth12.799 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for Previous Generation Intel® Processorsno data
Clear Video+no data
Graphics max frequency500 MHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported2no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium U5600 and Athlon II Neo K125.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes16no data

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.

Pentium U5600 624
+98.1%
Athlon II Neo K125 315

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2011 12 May 2010
Physical cores 2 1
Threads 2 1
Chip lithography 32 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 12 Watt

Pentium U5600 has an age advantage of 7 months, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon II Neo K125, on the other hand, has 50% lower power consumption.

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