Intel Pentium M 760 vs AMD Turion II P520

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General info

Comparing Turion II P520 and Pentium M 760 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking2710not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Turion IIPentium M
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Dothan (2004−2005)
Release date12 May 2010 (13 years old)January 2005 (19 years old)
Current price$37 $381

Technical specs

Turion II P520 and Pentium M 760 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)1 (Single-Core)
Threads21
Base clock speedno data2 GHz
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz2 GHz
Bus support3600 MHz533 MHz
L1 cache128 KB32 KB
L2 cache2 MB2 MB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm90 nm
Die sizeno data84 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistorsno data140 million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierNoNo
VID voltage rangeno data1.26V-1.356V

Compatibility

Information on Turion II P520 and Pentium M 760 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
SocketS1 (S1g4)H-PBGA479,PPGA478
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt27 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II P520 and Pentium M 760. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0, integrated DDR3-1066 memory controllerno data
VirusProtect+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data-
Demand Based Switchingno data-
PAEno data32 Bit
FSB parityno data-
Statusno dataDiscontinued

Security technologies

Turion II P520 and Pentium M 760 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 P520 and Pentium M 760 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+no data
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II P520 and Pentium M 760. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3no data
ECC memory supportno 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.


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 P520 1863
+125%
Pentium M 760 830

Turion II P520 outperforms Pentium M 760 by 125% 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 P520 33.7
+155%
Pentium M 760 86

Pentium M 760 outperforms Turion II P520 by 155% in wPrime 32.

Advantages and disadvantages


Physical cores 2 1
Threads 2 1
Chip lithography 45 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 27 Watt

We couldn't decide between Turion II P520 and Pentium M 760. We've got no test results to judge.


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