AMD Athlon II X2 340 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Trinity) AMD Ryzen 7000
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Ryzen
• Generation
  1 6
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Form Factor
  - Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Series
  - Ryzen 7000 Series

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

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 4.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 16
• CPU Threads
  2 32
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 5.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.6 GHz -
• Core Configuration
  - 16x Zen 4
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 5.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (16 Cores)
  - 5 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
  - 2
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 2200 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 2200 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 8 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2022
• Shader
  - 128
• Technology
  - 5 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 2

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

• AV1
  No No
• 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 / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and AMD Athlon II X2 340. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 128 GB
• Memory channels
  1 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR5
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 83.2 GB/s
• PCIe
  - PCIe 5.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 340 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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
  - 89 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W -
• TDP (PL2)
  - 162 W
• Default TDP
  - 120 W
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  - 120 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 340 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity Raphael (Zen 4)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
• L2-Cache
  - 16 MB
• L3-Cache
  1 MB 128 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 2023-02-28
• Socket
  FM2 AM5
• Technology
  32 nm TSMC 5nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• Chip design
  - Chiplet
• Codename
  - Raphael AM5
• Documents
  - Technical data sheet
• Operating systems
  - Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux