AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs AMD A10-5800K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Phenom II AMD A
• Generation
  4 2
• CPU group
  AMD Phenom II - 800/900 AMD A10-5000

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
  3.40 GHz 3.80 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  No turbo 4.20 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• 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 AMD Radeon HD 7660D
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  384
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  4
• DirectX Version
  11
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2012

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A10-5800K and AMD Phenom II X4 965. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR2-1066 DDR3-1866
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Phenom II X4 965 and AMD A10-5800K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  140 W 100 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Phenom II X4 965 and AMD Phenom II X4 965, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  6.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Deneb (K10) Trinity (Piledriver)
• Technology
  45 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  AM3 FM2
• Release date
  Q3/2009 Q3/2012