AMD Athlon II X4 740 vs Intel Core i7-3770. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Trinity) Intel Core i 3000
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i7
• Generation
  1 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz 3.9 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.7 GHz 3.9 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 11.0
• Execution units
  - 16
• Generation
  - 7
• GPU Frequency
  - 650 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 4000
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1150 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Release date
  - Q1/2011
• Shader
  - 128
• Technology
  - 22 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-3770 and AMD Athlon II X4 740. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  1 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X4 740 and Intel Core i7-3770 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 77 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X4 740 and Intel Core i7-3770, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity Ivy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 8 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q2/2012
• Socket
  FM2 LGA 1155
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d