Turion II Ultra M620 vs Phenom II X3 N830

Place in the ranking	2721	2879
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	3x AMD Phenom II	AMD Turion II Ultra
Power efficiency	1.89	1.38
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Caspian (2009)
Release date	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X3 N830 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	3 (Tri-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	3	2
Boost clock speed	2.1 GHz	2.5 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	3600 MHz
L2 cache	1.5 MB	2 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X3 N830 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	S1	Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X3 N830 and Turion II Ultra M620. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	86x MMX(+), 3DNow!(+), SSE(1,2,3,4A),-64, AMD-V	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X3 N830 and Turion II Ultra M620 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X3 N830 and Turion II Ultra M620. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

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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.

Phenom II X3 N830 0.70
+37.3%

Turion II Ultra M620 0.51

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.

Phenom II X3 N830 1107
+36%

Turion II Ultra M620 814

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Phenom II X3 N830 269

Turion II Ultra M620 297
+10.4%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Phenom II X3 N830 744
+35.3%

Turion II Ultra M620 550

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.

Phenom II X3 N830 24.7
+26.7%

Turion II Ultra M620 31.3