AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ vs Intel Pentium 957

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM2 Intel BGA 1023
Process size 65 nm 32 nm
Transistors 154 million 504 million
Die size 126 mm² 131 mm²
Package µPGA rPGA
Foundry — Intel

Performance

Frequency 1900 MHz 1200 MHz
Turbo clock — —
Base clock 200 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 9.5x 12.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.25 V —
TDP 65 W 17 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Mobile
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Dec 5th, 2006 Jun 19th, 2011
Codename Brisbane Sandy Bridge
Generation Athlon 64 X2 Pentium
Part ADO3600IAA5DL SR089
Memory support unknown Dual-channel DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 —

Cores

Total Cores 2 2
Total Threads 2 2
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics — Intel HD (Sandy Bridge)

Cache

Cache L1 256K 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K 256K (per core)
Cache L3 — 2MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes —
AMD-V Yes —
AMD64 Yes —
EIST — Yes
Intel 64 — Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes —
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.1 — Yes
SSE4.2 — Yes
SSSE3 — Yes
Smart Cache — Yes
XD bit — Yes

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