A10-8700P vs Turion II Ultra M660

Primary details

Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	3074	2488
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Turion II Ultra	AMD Carrizo
Designer	AMD	AMD
Architecture codename	Caspian (2009)	Carrizo (2015−2018)
Release date	10 September 2009 (16 years ago)	3 June 2015 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P 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)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	no data	1.8 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.7 GHz	3.2 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	no data
L2 cache	2 MB	2048 KB
Chip lithography	45 nm	28 nm
Maximum core temperature	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	no data	3100 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P 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	Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin	FP4
Power consumption (TDP)	2 MB	2 MB

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization	HSA 1.0
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	-	FMA4
AVX	-	AVX
FRTC	-	+
FreeSync	-	+
DualGraphics	-	+
TrueAudio	-	+
PowerNow	+	+
PowerGating	-	+
Out-of-band client management	-	+
VirusProtect	-	+
HSA	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
IOMMU 2.0	-	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR2	DDR3-2133
Max memory channels	no data	2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	no data	AMD Radeon R6 Graphics
iGPU core count	no data	6
Enduro	-	+
Switchable graphics	-	+
UVD	-	+
VCE	-	+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort	-	+
HDMI	-	+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	no data	DirectX® 12
Vulkan	-	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Turion II Ultra M660 and A10-8700P.

PCIe version

no data

3.0

Synthetic benchmarks

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	0.56	1.28
Recency	10 September 2009	3 June 2015
Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	45 nm	28 nm

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