The microprocessors have Thermal Design Power ranging from 20 Watt to 35 Watt. At the beginning the Turion was produced in 90nm, later in 65nm technology. The AMD Turion 64 X2 was the first dual core processor by AMD and is the direct competitor of Intel's Core Duo.
It supports the following instruction extensions: MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, PowerNow!, NX-Bit, AMD-V.Due to the smaller L2 cache, the Turion 64 X2 is slower than its direct competitor, the Intel Core (2) Duo. However, this is not the only reason for being not that speedy. Even equally clocked Pentium Dual-Core processors with only 1024 KB L2 cache are faster than the Turion. Turion 64 X2 Mobile technologyis a family of dual-core mobile microprocessors. "good for the money" - by smokeycracker. All Turion 64 X2 processors utilize two-level cache architecture, and integrate up to 1 MB of last level cache. The dual-core Turion processors are based on K8 architecture and have 128 KB level 1 cache, from 512 KB to 1 MB level 2 cache, dual-channel DDR2 memory controller and one hyper-transport The successor model, the Turion 64 X2 Ultra code-named 'Griffin', where both parts are separately energised, and later developments support this. The AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60is a Dual-Core processor clocked at 2.0 GHz. AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-60 (2 GHz), 2GB RAM, 250GB SATA HDD, DVD+/-RW, 802.11g Wireless, 9-cell Lithium Ion Battery, Vista Home Premium. technology, which is comparable to the Speedstep technology by Intel. by Dell. It allows the processor to automatically reduce the clock-frequency (to 800/1000 MHz) and the voltage in order to save energy. Nevertheless, the performance of the Turion suffices all non-demanding tasks.The AMD Turion 64 X2 processor features the AMD PowerNow! It is based on the K8 core and offers only 512KB Level 2 Cache per core. However, it cannot reduce the voltage as far as the Core (2) Duo can, because the memory controller has to be always energised. According to AMD the Turion should need less energy in any sleep state than the Core Duo by Intel. Dell Inspiron 1721 17" Notebook PC. AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology Dual-Core Processor Product Data Sheet. AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile technology family consists of 27 microprocessors, having 2 cores, and running at frequencies up to 2.4 GHz.