AMD Athlon X4 970 vs Intel Core i7-4600U

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM4 Intel BGA 1168
Process size 28 nm 22 nm
Transistors 1,178 million 1,300 million
Die size 246 mm² 118 mm²
Package µPGA FC-BGA1168
tCaseMax 74°C
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 3.8 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo clock up to 4 GHz up to 3.3 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 38.0x 21.0x
Multiplier unlocked Yes No
Voltage 1.475 V
TDP 65 W 15 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Mobile
Production status Active unknown
Release date Jul 27th, 2017 Sep 1st, 2013
Codename Bristol Ridge Haswell-ULT
Generation Athlon Core i7
Part AD970XAUM44AB unknown
Memory support DDR4 Dual-channel DDR3
ECC memory No No

Cores

Total Cores 4 2
Total Threads 4 4
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Intel HD 5000

Cache

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

Notes

Notes This processor comes with an unlocked base clock multiplier, allowing users to set the multiplier value higher than shipped value, to facilitate better overclocking.

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
AES Yes
AES-NI Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
AVX Yes Yes
AVX2 Yes
BMI1 Yes
BMI2 Yes
EIST Yes
EVP Yes
F16C Yes
FMA3 Yes
FMA4 Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4 Yes
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
TBM Yes
TXT Yes
Turbo Core Yes
VT-d Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes
XOP Yes

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