AMD Athlon X2 QL-62 vs AMD Turion 64 ML-42

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon X2 QL-62 and AMD Turion 64 ML-42 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon X2 QL-62

• CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 2 vs 1
• 1 more threads: 2 vs 1
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 65 nm vs 90 nm
• 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• Around 37% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 623 vs 455
• Around 31% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 525 vs 400

Reasons to consider the AMD Turion 64 ML-42

• Around 20% higher clock speed: 2.4 GHz vs 2 GHz

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon X2 QL-62
CPU 2: AMD Turion 64 ML-42

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	623 455
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	525 400

Compare specifications (specs)