AMD A6-3420M vs Intel Pentium G840

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket FS1 Intel Socket 1155
Process size 32 nm 32 nm
Transistors 1,178 million 504 million
Die size 228 mm² 131 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA10
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 1500 MHz 2.8 GHz
Turbo clock up to 2.4 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 15.0x 28.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.4125 V
TDP 35 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Mobile Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Dec 20th, 2011 May 22nd, 2011
Codename Llano Sandy Bridge
Generation A6 Pentium
Part AM3420DDX43GX SR05P
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 3, 16 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 4 2
Total Threads 4 2
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Radeon HD 6520G Intel HD (Sandy Bridge)

Cache

Cache L1 128K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 1MB (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 3MB (shared)

Notes

Notes 400MHz integrated graphics core frequency

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
AES-NI Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
AVX Yes
EIST Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes
Power Now! Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes

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