Pentium P6300 vs Turion II M500

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Aggregate performance score

Turion II M500
2009
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.53
Pentium P6300
2011
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.53

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Turion II M500 Turion II M500
Pentium P6300 Pentium P6300

Primary details

Comparing Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking28592870
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Turion IIIntel Pentium
Power efficiency1.431.43
Architecture codenameCaspian (2009)Arrandale (2010−2011)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)9 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300 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
Base clock speedno data2.27 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz0.27 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 1.0
Bus rate3600 MHz1 × 2.5 GT/s
Multiplierno data17
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB256K (per core)
L3 cacheno data3 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die sizeno data81+114 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data90 °C
Number of transistorsno data384 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300 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 (Uniprocessor)
SocketSocket S1 (s1g3) 638-pinPGA988
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300. 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 Virtualizationno data
FMA-+
PowerNow+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Demand Based Switchingno data-
PAEno data36 Bit
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data17.051 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel HD Graphics for Previous Generation Intel Processors
Clear Videono data+
Graphics max frequencyno data667 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Recency 10 September 2009 9 January 2011
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm

Pentium P6300 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300.

Should you still have questions on choice between Turion II M500 and Pentium P6300, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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