AMD Athlon II X4 631 vs Intel Core i3-4170. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i3
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X4 (Llano) Intel Core i 4000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 4

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.60 GHz 3.70 GHz

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
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 4400
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.15 GHz
• Execution units
  20
• Shader
  160
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  7.5
• Technology
  22 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013

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
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-4170 and AMD Athlon II X4 631. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333DDR3-1600DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X4 631 and Intel Core i3-4170 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  100 W 54 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X4 631 and AMD Athlon II X4 631, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Llano Haswell S
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  FM1 LGA 1150
• Release date
  Q3/2011 Q1/2015