AMD Athlon II X3 460 vs Intel Core i7-620M

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 Intel BGA 1288
Process size 45 nm 32 nm
Transistors 300 million 384 million
Die size 169 mm² 81 mm²
Package µPGA rPGA
Foundry — Intel

Performance

Frequency 3.4 GHz 2.677 GHz
Turbo clock — up to 3.333 GHz
Base clock 200 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 17.0x 20.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.4 V —
TDP 95 W 35 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Mobile
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date May 3rd, 2011 Jan 7th, 2010
Codename Rana Arrandale
Generation Athlon II X3 Core i7
Part ADX460WFK32GMADX460WFGMBOX SLBPESLBTR
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 —

Cores

Total Cores 3 2
Total Threads 3 4
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics — —

Cache

Cache L1 128K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 — 4MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes —
AES-NI — Yes
AMD-V Yes —
AMD64 Yes —
EIST — Yes
HTT — 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
SSE4A Yes —
SSSE3 — Yes
Smart Cache — Yes
TXT — Yes
Turbo Boost — Yes
VT-d — Yes
VT-x — Yes
XD bit — Yes

Notes

Notes — 177M GPU Transistors

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