AMD Athlon 650 vs Intel Core i5-670

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket A Intel Socket 1156
Process size 180 nm 32 nm
Transistors 37 million 382 million
Die size 120 mm² 81 mm²
Package — FC-LGA10
Foundry — Intel

Performance

Frequency 650 MHz 3.466 GHz
Turbo clock — up to 3.733 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 6.5x 26.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.75 V 1.4 V
TDP 38 W 73 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Jun 5th, 2000 Jan 7th, 2010
Codename Thunderbird Clarkdale
Generation Athlon Model 4 Core i5
Part A0650AMT3BA0650APT3B SLBLT
Memory support DDR1 DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express — Gen 2, 16 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 1 2
Total Threads 1 4
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics — Intel HD

Cache

Cache L1 128K 64K (per core)
Cache L2 256K 256K (per core)
Cache L3 — 4MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

Enhanced 3DNow! Yes —
HTT — Yes
Intel 64 — Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE — Yes
SSE2 — Yes
SSE3 — Yes
SSE4 — Yes
SSE4.1 — Yes
SSE4.2 — Yes
SSSE3 — Yes
TBT — Yes
TXT — Yes
VT-d — Yes
VT-x — Yes
XD-Bit — Yes

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