CPU Comparison

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AMD

AMD

AMD Athlon 950

CORE STATE Orion

CORE SPECS 1 Cores / 1 Threads

CLOCK SPEED 950 Base

CACHE —

MAX TDP 62W

ARCHITECTURE K10

nm

PROCESS 180 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2000

VS

i

Intel

INTEL

Core i5-540M

CORE STATE Arrandale

CORE SPECS 2 Cores / 4 Threads

CLOCK SPEED 2.53 Base / 3.07 GHz Turbo

CACHE 3 MB (shared)

MAX TDP 35W

ARCHITECTURE Westmere

nm

PROCESS 32 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

cinebench_cinebench_r15_multicore

N/A

153

cinebench_cinebench_r20_multicore

N/A

640

cinebench_cinebench_r20_singlecore

N/A

90

cinebench_cinebench_r23_multicore

N/A

1,524

cinebench_cinebench_r23_singlecore

N/A

215

geekbench_multicore

N/A

781

geekbench_singlecore

N/A

404

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

Athlon 950

i5-540M

Core Specs

Cores

1

2 +100.0%

Threads

1

4 +300.0%

Base Clock (GHz)

950

2.53 -99.7%

Boost Clock (GHz)

—

3.07

Frequency (GHz)

950

2.53 -99.7%

Turbo Clock (GHz)

—

3.07

Multiplier

9.5

19 +100.0%

SMP CPUs

1

1 0.0%

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB

64 KB (per core)

L2 Cache

512 KB

256 KB (per core)

L3 Cache

—

3 MB (shared)

Power

TDP (W)

62

35 -43.5%

Architecture

Architecture

K10

Westmere

Codename

Orion

Arrandale

Generation

Athlon Model 2 (Orion)

Core i5 (Arrandale)

Process Size

180 nm

32 nm

Transistors

22 million

382 million

Die Size

102 mm²

81 mm²

Foundry

—

Intel

Memory

Memory Support

unknown Depends on motherboard

DDR3

Memory Bus

Single-channel

—

ECC Memory

No

No

Platform

Socket

AMD Slot A

Intel Socket G1

Chipsets

AMD 750, VIA KX133

—

PCIe

—

Gen 2

Graphics

Integrated Graphics

—

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Other

Market

Desktop

Mobile

Production Status

End-of-life

End-of-life

Launch Price

$999

—

Part Number

AMD-K7950MNR53BA

—

Package

SECC

rPGA

Bundled Cooler

Yes

—

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