AMD Turion II P540 vs Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

Comparative analysis of AMD Turion II P540 and Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Memory. 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 Turion II P540

• CPU is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 2 vs 1
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 130 nm
• 16x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 70 Watt
• Around 46% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 957 vs 657
• 2.9x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1021 vs 347

Reasons to consider the Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

• Around 28% higher clock speed: 3.07 GHz vs 2.4 GHz

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Turion II P540
CPU 2: Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	957 657
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1021 347

Compare specifications (specs)