AMD Athlon II X2 240e vs Intel Atom C2530. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus) Intel Atom C2000
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Atom
• Generation
  1 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.8 GHz 1.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 2 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Atom C2530 and AMD Athlon II X2 240e. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  16 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• PCIe
  2.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 8
• PCIe version
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 240e and Intel Atom C2530 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  45 W 9 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 240e and Intel Atom C2530, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Propus Avoton
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  2 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 2 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2009 Q3/2013
• Socket
  AM3 BGA 1283
• Technology
  45 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT