Athlon Neo MV-40 vs Xeon L5420

Primary details

Comparing Xeon L5420 and Athlon Neo MV-40 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2237	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Athlon Neo
Power efficiency	2.55	no data
Architecture codename	no data	Huron (2009)
Release date	1 January 2008 (16 years ago)	6 January 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon L5420 and Athlon Neo MV-40 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	no data	1 (Single-Core)
Threads	no data	1
Base clock speed	2.5 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	1.6 GHz
Bus rate	no data	1600 MHz
L1 cache	no data	128 KB
L2 cache	no data	512 KB
L3 cache	12 MB L2 Cache	no data
Chip lithography	45 nm	65 nm
Maximum core temperature	57 °C	95 °C
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	0.85V-1.35V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Xeon L5420 and Athlon Neo MV-40 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	LGA771	ASB1
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon L5420 and Athlon Neo MV-40. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization
VirusProtect	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
Demand Based Switching	+	no data
FSB parity	+	no data

Security technologies

Xeon L5420 and Athlon Neo MV-40 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon L5420 and Athlon Neo MV-40 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-x	+	no data
EPT	-	no 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.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 January 2008	6 January 2009
Chip lithography	45 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	15 Watt

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