AMD A4-3300 vs AMD Athlon II X2 340. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD A AMD Athlon II
• Generation
  1 1
• CPU group
  AMD A4-3000 AMD Athlon II (Trinity)

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 3.60 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 6410D no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.44 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2
• Shader
  160
• Max. GPU Memory
  1 GB --
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  3
• DirectX Version
  11
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2010

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon II X2 340 and AMD A4-3300. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A4-3300 and AMD Athlon II X2 340 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A4-3300 and AMD A4-3300, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE3
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Llano (K10) Trinity
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  FM1 FM2
• Release date
  Q3/2011 Q4/2012