AMD Athlon II X3 400e vs Intel Pentium G6960

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 Intel Socket 1156
Process size 45 nm 32 nm
Transistors 300 million 382 million
Die size 169 mm² 81 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA10
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 2.2 GHz 2.933 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 200 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 11.0x 22.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.25 V 1.4 V
TDP 45 W 73 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Oct 20th, 2009 Jan 9th, 2011
Codename Rana Clarkdale
Generation Athlon II X3 Pentium
Part AD400EHDK32GIAD405EHDGIBOX SLBT6
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2, 16 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 3 2
Total Threads 3 2
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Intel HD

Cache

Cache L1 128K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 3MB (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
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
Smart Cache Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes

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