Intel Pentium G3220 vs AMD Athlon II X2 250. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Athlon II
• Generation
  5 1
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G3000 AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus)

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
  3.00 GHz 3.00 GHz
• 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
  Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  10
• Shader
  80
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  7.5
• Technology
  22 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon II X2 250 and Intel Pentium G3220. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium G3220 and AMD Athlon II X2 250 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  54 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium G3220 and Intel Pentium G3220, 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
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Haswell S Propus
• Technology
  14 nm 45 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1150 AM3
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2009