AMD E2-3800 vs Intel Pentium B960. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD E Intel Pentium
• Generation
  3 2
• CPU group
  AMD E2-3000 Intel Pentium 900

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
  1.30 GHz 2.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes 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
  AMD Radeon HD 8280 Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
• GPU frequency
  0.45 GHz 0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  2 6
• Shader
  128 48
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  5 6
• DirectX Version
  11.1 10.1
• Technology
  28 nm 32 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2011

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium B960 and AMD E2-3800. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR3-1066DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD E2-3800 and Intel Pentium B960 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 35 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 85 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD E2-3800 and AMD E2-3800, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Llano (K10) Sandy Bridge U
• Technology
  28 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  N/A PGA 988
• Release date
  Q4/2013 Q4/2011