AMD Athlon II X2 270 vs Intel Pentium G840

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 Intel Socket 1155
Process size 45 nm 32 nm
Transistors 410 million 504 million
Die size 117 mm² 131 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA10
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 3.4 GHz 2.8 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 200 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 17.0x 28.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.15 V
TDP 65 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Jul 1st, 2011 May 22nd, 2011
Codename Regor Sandy Bridge
Generation Athlon II X2 Pentium
Part ADX270OCK23GM SR05P
Memory support DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 3, 16 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 2 2
Total Threads 2 2
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Intel HD (Sandy Bridge)

Cache

Cache L1 128K 64K (per core)
Cache L2 1MB 256K (per core)
Cache L3 3MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
AES-NI Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
AVX Yes
EIST Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.2 Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes

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