AMD Athlon II X2 340 vs Intel Core i5-4690K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Trinity) Intel Core i 4000
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i5
• Generation
  1 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 3.9 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.6 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3.7 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
  - 11.1
• Execution units
  - 20
• Generation
  - 7.5
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 4600
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1200 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q2/2013
• Shader
  - 160
• Technology
  - 22 nm

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 No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-4690K and AMD Athlon II X2 340. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  1 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 340 and Intel Core i5-4690K Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 88 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 340 and Intel Core i5-4690K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity Devils Canyon S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q2/2014
• Socket
  FM2 LGA 1150
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d