AMD Athlon II 170u vs Intel Pentium B940. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Pentium
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II 100u Intel Pentium 900
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Generation
  1 2

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 2.00 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.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  48
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  6
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  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
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium B940 and AMD Athlon II 170u. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR2DDR3 DDR3-1066DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II 170u and Intel Pentium B940 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II 170u and AMD Athlon II 170u, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sargas Sandy Bridge U
• Technology
  45 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  AM3 PGA 988
• Release date
  Q3/2010 Q2/2011