AMD Turion X2 RM-70: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Turion X2 RM-70 sales 3 June 2008. This is a Puma architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is S1 processor with a TDP of 31 Watt.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.55% of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.

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General info

Turion X2 RM-70 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2661
Market segmentLaptop
Series2x AMD Turion
Architecture codenamePuma (2008−2009)
Release date3 June 2008 (15 years old)
Current price$27 of 15710 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Boost clock speed2 GHzof 6 (Core i9-13900KS)
Bus support3600 MHz
L1 cache256 KBof 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache1 MBof 36 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache0 KBof 786432 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography65 nmof 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Turion X2 RM-70 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketS1
Power consumption (TDP)31 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Turion X2 RM-70. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
PowerNow+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Turion X2 RM-70. Overall benchmark performance 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 X2 RM-70 0.55

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 X2 RM-70 1556

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: 20%

Turion X2 RM-70 3012

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 X2 RM-70 1412

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Turion X2 RM-70 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Turion X2 RM-70 is Core 2 Duo T5870, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.

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Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Turion X2 RM-70, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Turion X2 RM-70 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 106 configurations based on Turion X2 RM-70 in our database.

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