AMD Athlon II 170u vs Intel Pentium B940. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II 100u Intel Pentium 900
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Pentium
• Generation
  1 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  1x -
• CPU Cores
  1 2
• CPU Threads
  1 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

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

• DirectX Version
  - 10.1
• Execution units
  - 6
• Generation
  - 6
• GPU Frequency
  - 650 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1100 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Release date
  - Q2/2011
• Shader
  - 48
• Technology
  - 32 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium B940 and AMD Athlon II 170u. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR2DDR3 DDR3-1066DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II 170u and Intel Pentium B940 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 85 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  20 W 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II 170u and Intel Pentium B940, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Sargas Sandy Bridge U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 2 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2010 Q2/2011
• Socket
  AM3 PGA 988
• Technology
  45 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d