Turion 64 X2 TL-60 vs Turion II M520

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General info

Comparing Turion II M520 and Turion 64 X2 TL-60 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	2671	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Turion II	2x AMD Turion 64
Architecture codename	Caspian (2009)	Trinidad/Tyler (2007)
Release date	10 September 2009 (14 years ago)	4 May 2007 (16 years ago)
Current price	$38	$174

Technical specs

Turion II M520 and Turion 64 X2 TL-60 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Boost clock speed	2.3 GHz	2 GHz
Bus support	3600 MHz	800 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	90 nm
Die size	no data	147 mm²
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Number of transistors	no data	154 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Turion II M520 and Turion 64 X2 TL-60 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	Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35/31 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II M520 and Turion 64 X2 TL-60. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization	90/65 nm, 1.075
PowerNow	+	no 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 M520 1955
+20.8%

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 1619

Turion II M520 outperforms Turion 64 X2 TL-60 by 21% 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 M520 3754
+19.9%

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 3130

Turion II M520 outperforms Turion 64 X2 TL-60 by 20% 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 M520 1839
+26.2%

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 1457

Turion II M520 outperforms Turion 64 X2 TL-60 by 26% 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 M520 33.6
+16.1%

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 39

Turion 64 X2 TL-60 outperforms Turion II M520 by 16% in wPrime 32.