Intel Pentium B960 vs AMD Athlon 3000G. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Athlon
• Generation
  2 4
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 900 AMD Athlon 3000

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
  2.20 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No 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
  Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 1.00 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  6 3
• Shader
  48 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 8
• DirectX Version
  10.1 12
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q1/2018

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 3000G and Intel Pentium B960. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium B960 and AMD Athlon 3000G to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium B960 and Intel Pentium B960, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge U Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  PGA 988 AM4
• Release date
  Q4/2011 Q4/2019