AMD Athlon II X2 340 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Trinity) Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Qualcomm Snapdragon
• Generation
  1 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• A-Core
  - 4x Kryo 495 Gold
• B-Core
  - 4x Kryo 495 Silver
• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 1.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• CPU Threads
  2 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 2.84 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.6 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 2.84 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
  - 12.0
• Execution units
  - 0
• Generation
  - 6
• GPU Frequency
  - 250 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Qualcomm Adreno 690
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 590 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 0
• Release date
  - Q4/2020
• Shader
  - 0
• Technology
  - 7 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Conflicting source values: Decode | 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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 and AMD Athlon II X2 340. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 8
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 LPDDR4X-2133

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 340 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 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 7 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 340 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity Kryo 495
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 -
• L3-Cache
  1 MB 2 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q4/2018
• Socket
  FM2 -
• Technology
  32 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None