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Core 2 Duo vs Turion 64

The Core 2 Duo is dif­fe­rent from the “Core Duo” and Pen­tium Dual. AMD’s single-core Turion 64 is dif­fe­rent from Turion 64 X2. The Intel Core 2 Duo is a 64-bit sys­tem, whe­reas the Intel “Core Duo” is a 32-bit sys­tem. We are only going to talk about the AMD Mobile Turion 64 single-core and Intel’s Core 2 Duo pro­ces­sors. This article can help in deci­ding on one of these processors.

AMD Turion 64

The AMD Mobile Turion 64 is a single-core 64-bit pro­ces­sor. This pro­ces­sor can run 32– and 64-bit ope­ra­ting sys­tems. There are seve­ral single-core Turion 64s in this cate­gory. They range from a CPU speed of 1 GHz to 2.4 GHz.

The Turion 64 ML and MT are com­pa­ti­ble with a Soc­ket 754-type CPU soc­ket, whe­reas the Turions desig­na­ted with “MK” are com­pa­ti­ble with a Soc­ket S1. The Turion 64-MK has the best per­for­mance of the family.

2 Duo Processor

Intel Core 2 Duo pro­ces­sor is 64-bit tech­no­logy. It is a two-core pro­ces­sor and can run both 32– and 64-bit ope­ra­ting systems.

Intel offers at least 57 types of 2 Duo pro­ces­sors for lap­tops. Their speed ran­ges from 1.06 GHz to 3.06 GHz. The L2 caches of these pro­ces­sors are lis­ted as 2, 3, 4 and 6 MB. The fre­quency of the front side bus is from 533 to 1,066 MHz.

2 Duo consumption

Per­for­mance for mobile chips is redu­ced as much as 25 per­cent from desk­top chips.

The alpha nota­tion of wat­tage and thus power con­ser­va­tion is:

The highest current con­sump­tion: X (extreme).
Desk­top pro­ces­sors over 55 watts: E
Regu­lar lap­top CPU 30–39 Watt : T
Lap­tops up to 25 watts: P
Low vol­tage CPU, 12–19 watts: L
Ultra-low vol­tage, less than 19 watts: U

Power Con­sump­tion of Turion

Turion’s power con­sump­tion is indi­ca­ted by its ther­mal dis­si­pa­tion rating. The ML has a TDP of 35 watts.

The Turion-MT has less per­for­mance but bet­ter power con­ser­va­tion. It’s TDP is 25 watts.

Power­Now! ena­bles the ML processor’s ope­ra­ting fre­quency to scale down. The hot­test Turion can cook at 2.4 GHz and cool down to 800 MHz. Of course, this is depen­dent on CPU load. The vol­tage sca­les accordingly.

Desk­tops

There are Core 2 Duo pro­ces­sors for desk­top com­pu­ters. They range from 800 MHz to 1333 MHZ FSB. The L2 cache sizes were 2, 3, 4 and 6 MB. The soc­kets were PLGA775, but the most up to date offe­rings are LGA775. The pro­ces­sor fre­quency was 1.80 GHz on the low end and went as high as 3.33 GHz.

AMD pri­ma­rily inten­ded Turion 64 for lap­tops. Repor­tedly, there are some ways to kluge a main­board with 754 soc­ket to per­form with a Turion 64 on the desktop.

Sum­mary

Both of these pro­ces­sors will ena­ble you to take advan­tage of a 64-bit ope­ra­ting sys­tem. There are more 64-bit games and appli­ca­tions beco­ming avai­la­ble. These games and apps require 64-bit pro­ces­sors and ope­ra­ting systems.

An AMD Turion 64 pro­ces­sor is a good option for a lap­top. Addi­tio­nally, the 2 Duo pro­ces­sors are for lap­tops and desktops.