Athlon II M340 vs Turion II P520

Place in performance ranking	2733	2728
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Turion II	AMD Athlon II
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Caspian (2009)
Release date	12 May 2010 (13 years ago)	10 September 2009 (14 years ago)
Current price	$37	$155

Detailed specifications

Turion II P520 and Athlon II M340 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	2.2 GHz
Bus support	3600 MHz	3200 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Turion II P520 and Athlon II M340 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 (S1g4)	Socket S1 (S1g3)
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II P520 and Athlon II M340. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0, integrated DDR3-1066 memory controller	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization, DDR2 400 MHz Memory Controller
PowerNow	no data	+
VirusProtect	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II P520 and Athlon II M340 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II P520 and Athlon II M340. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

DDR2

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.

Turion II P520 0.52

Athlon II M340 0.52

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 P520 801

Athlon II M340 807
+0.7%

Athlon II M340 outperforms Turion II P520 by 1% in Passmark.