AMD Athlon X4 845 vs Intel Core i3-11100. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Core i3
• Generation
  2 11
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon X4 (Carizzo) Intel Core i 11000

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
  3.50 GHz 3.80 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.80 GHz 4.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  3.80 GHz 4.30 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• 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
  no iGPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  24
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2017

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-11100 and AMD Athlon X4 845. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-2133 DDR4-2933
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8 16

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon X4 845 and Intel Core i3-11100 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 65 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon X4 845 and AMD Athlon X4 845, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Carizzo Rocket Lake S
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FM2+ LGA 1200
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q2/2021