AMD Turion II P560 vs Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

Comparative analysis of AMD Turion II P560 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 P560

  • CPU is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 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
  • 33.1x 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 53% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1006 vs 657
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 913 vs 347
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 October 2010 vs June 2003
Number of cores 2 vs 1
Manufacturing process technology 45 nm vs 130 nm
L1 cache 265 KB vs 8 KB
L2 cache 2 MB vs 512 KB
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 70 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1006 vs 657
PassMark - CPU mark 913 vs 347

Reasons to consider the Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

  • Around 23% higher clock speed: 3.07 GHz vs 2.5 GHz
Maximum frequency 3.07 GHz vs 2.5 GHz

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Turion II P560
CPU 2: Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1006
657
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
913
347
Name AMD Turion II P560 Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06
PassMark - Single thread mark 1006 657
PassMark - CPU mark 913 347
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 301
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 558

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Turion II P560 Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

Essentials

Architecture codename Champlain Northwood
Launch date 19 October 2010 June 2003
Place in performance rating 2739 2769
Series AMD Turion II
Vertical segment Laptop Laptop

Performance

64 bit support
Front-side bus (FSB) 3600 MHz
L1 cache 265 KB 8 KB
L2 cache 2 MB 512 KB
Manufacturing process technology 45 nm 130 nm
Maximum frequency 2.5 GHz 3.07 GHz
Number of cores 2 1
Number of threads 2
Die size 131 mm
Maximum case temperature (TCase) 74 °C
Transistor count 55 million

Compatibility

Sockets supported S1 478
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 70 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1

Advanced Technologies

VirusProtect
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)

Memory

Supported memory types DDR1, DDR2