AMD Athlon II X4 610e vs Intel Core i3-2120

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 Intel Socket 1155
Process size 45 nm 32 nm
Transistors 300 million 504 million
Die size 169 mm² 131 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA10
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 2.4 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 200 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 12.0x 33.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.25 V
TDP 45 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date May 11th, 2010 Feb 20th, 2011
Codename Propus Sandy Bridge
Generation Athlon II X4 Core i3
Part AD610EHDK42GMAD610EDGMBOX SR05Y
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 3, 16 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 4 2
Total Threads 4 4
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Intel HD 2000

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
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes
SMT Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSE4A Yes
TXT Yes
VT-x Yes
XD-Bit Yes

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