Phenom II X2 N640 vs Turion II P520

Place in the ranking	2866	2529
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Turion II	2x AMD Phenom II
Power efficiency	1.93	2.43
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)	1 October 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion II P520 and Phenom II X2 N640 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	2.9 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	3600 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	256 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	2 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Turion II P520 and Phenom II X2 N640 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)	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II P520 and Phenom II X2 N640. 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	HyperTransport 3.0, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Vurtualization
VirusProtect	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II P520 and Phenom II X2 N640 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II P520 and Phenom II X2 N640. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

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 0.51

Phenom II X2 N640 0.90
+76.5%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Turion II P520 289

Phenom II X2 N640 342
+18.3%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Turion II P520 522

Phenom II X2 N640 623
+19.3%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Turion II P520 1

Phenom II X2 N640 2
+24.8%