Phenom II X3 N870 vs Turion II P520

Place in the ranking	2861	2415
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Turion II	3x AMD Phenom II
Power efficiency	1.93	2.87
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)	16 December 2010 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion II P520 and Phenom II X3 N870 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)	3 (Tri-Core)
Threads	2	3
Boost clock speed	2.3 GHz	2.3 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	3600 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB	384 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1.5 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	45 nm
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Turion II P520 and Phenom II X3 N870 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 (S1g4)
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II P520 and Phenom II X3 N870. 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	86x MMX(+), 3DNow!(+), SSE(1,2,3,4A),-64, AMD-V
VirusProtect	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II P520 and Phenom II X3 N870 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II P520 and Phenom II X3 N870. 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 0.53

Phenom II X3 N870 1.10
+108%

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 X3 N870 2
+47.4%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.53	1.10
Recency	12 May 2010	16 December 2010
Physical cores	2	3
Threads	2	3
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt

Turion II P520 has 40% lower power consumption.

Phenom II X3 N870, on the other hand, has a 107.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 months, and 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads.

The Phenom II X3 N870 is our recommended choice as it beats the Turion II P520 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Turion II P520 and Phenom II X3 N870, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.