AMD Athlon II X4 600e vs Intel Core i5-540M

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 Intel Socket G1
Process size 45 nm 32 nm
Transistors 300 million 382 million
Die size 169 mm² 81 mm²
Package µPGA rPGA
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 2.2 GHz 2.533 GHz
Turbo clock up to 3.073 GHz
Base clock 200 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 11.0x 19.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.2 V
TDP 45 W 35 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Mobile
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Oct 20th, 2009 Jan 7th, 2010
Codename Propus Arrandale
Generation Athlon II X4 Core i5
Part AD600EHDK42GIAD600EHDGIBOX unknown
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 4 2
Total Threads 4 4
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 128K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 3MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
AES-NI Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
EIST Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
Smart Cache Yes
TXT Yes
Turbo Boost Yes
VT-d Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes

Notes

Notes 177M GPU Transistors

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