AMD Athlon X2 QL-64 vs Turion II M500

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General info

Comparing Turion II M500 and Athlon X2 QL-64 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking2680not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Turion II2x AMD Athlon
Architecture codenameCaspian (2009)Lion (2008−2009)
Release date10 September 2009 (14 years old)1 January 2009 (15 years old)
Current price$100 $102

Technical specs

Turion II M500 and Athlon X2 QL-64 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz2.1 GHz
Bus support3600 MHz3600 MHz
L1 cacheno data256 KB
L2 cache1 MB1 MB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm65 nm
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Turion II M500 and Athlon X2 QL-64 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 configurationno data1
SocketSocket S1 (s1g3) 638-pinS1
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II M500 and Athlon X2 QL-64. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD VirtualizationMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II M500 and Athlon X2 QL-64 are enumerated here.

AMD-Vno 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.


Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Turion II M500 1865
+15.6%
Athlon X2 QL-64 1614

Turion II M500 outperforms Athlon X2 QL-64 by 16% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Turion II M500 3591
+11.4%
Athlon X2 QL-64 3223

Turion II M500 outperforms Athlon X2 QL-64 by 11% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Turion II M500 1756
+19.6%
Athlon X2 QL-64 1468

Turion II M500 outperforms Athlon X2 QL-64 by 20% in 3DMark06 CPU.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Turion II M500 34.76
+23.1%
Athlon X2 QL-64 42.8

Athlon X2 QL-64 outperforms Turion II M500 by 23% in wPrime 32.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 10 September 2009 1 January 2009
Chip lithography 45 nm 65 nm

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