AMD Turion II N530: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Turion II N530 sales 12 May 2010. This is a Champlain architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 45 manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2500 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is S1 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.56% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

Turion II N530 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2675
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesAMD Turion II
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)
Release date12 May 2010 (13 years old)
Current price$40 of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Boost clock speed2.5 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus support3600 MHz
L1 cache265 KBof 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache2 MBof 36 (Apple M2 Max)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Turion II N530 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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.

SocketS1
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Turion II N530. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3DNow!, SSE(1,2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, DDR3-1066 memory controller, HyperTransport 3.0
VirusProtect+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Turion II N530's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Turion II N530. Overall benchmark performance 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.

Turion II N530 0.56

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Turion II N530 855

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 N530 2245

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 N530 4335

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 N530 2128

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Turion II N530 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Turion II N530 is Core 2 Duo P7550, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Turion II N530, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Turion II N530 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 18 configurations based on Turion II N530 in our database.

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