Athlon II P340 vs Turion II P540

Primary details

Comparing Turion II P540 and Athlon II P340 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking2645not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Turion IIAMD Athlon II
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date12 May 2010 (14 years ago)4 October 2010 (13 years ago)
Current price$28 $169

Detailed specifications

Turion II P540 and Athlon II P340 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz2.2 GHz
Bus support3600 MHz3200 MHz
L1 cache128 KB256 KB
L2 cache2 MB1 MB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Turion II P540 and Athlon II P340 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.

SocketS1 (S1g4)S1g4
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II P540 and Athlon II P340. 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 controllerSSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVM
VirusProtect+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II P540 and Athlon II P340 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II P540 and Athlon II P340. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3no 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.


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 P540 1002
+43.8%
Athlon II P340 697

Turion II P540 outperforms Athlon II P340 by 44% in Passmark.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Turion II P540 281
+47.9%
Athlon II P340 190

Turion II P540 outperforms Athlon II P340 by 48% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Turion II P540 521
+64.4%
Athlon II P340 317

Turion II P540 outperforms Athlon II P340 by 64% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

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 P540 2160
+14%
Athlon II P340 1895

Turion II P540 outperforms Athlon II P340 by 14% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

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 P540 4181
+14.6%
Athlon II P340 3648

Turion II P540 outperforms Athlon II P340 by 15% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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 P540 2047
+13.7%
Athlon II P340 1801

Turion II P540 outperforms Athlon II P340 by 14% in 3DMark06 CPU.

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2010 4 October 2010

We couldn't decide between Turion II P540 and Athlon II P340. We've got no test results to judge.


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