AMD Athlon II 170u vs Intel Core i3-L13G4. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II 100u Intel Core i L
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i3
• Generation
  1 12
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2 GHz 0.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Core Configuration
  1x -
• CPU Cores
  1 5
• CPU Threads
  1 5
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 2.8 GHz
• A-Core
  - 1x Sunny-Cove
• B-Core
  - 4x Tremont
• Turbo Frequency (5 Cores)
  - 1.3 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 48
• Generation
  - 12
• GPU Frequency
  - 200 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 500 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 8 GB
• Release date
  - Q2/2020
• Shader
  - 384
• Technology
  - 10 nm

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

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-L13G4 and AMD Athlon II 170u. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR2DDR3 LPDDR4-4266
• PCIe lanes
  - 6
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II 170u and Intel Core i3-L13G4 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  20 W 7 W
• TDP down
  - 5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II 170u and Intel Core i3-L13G4, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Sargas Lakefield
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2010 Q2/2020
• Socket
  AM3 FC-CSP1016
• Technology
  45 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d