AMD Athlon II X4 651 vs AMD A8-3870K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon II AMD A
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X4 (Llano) AMD A8-3000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 1

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 Yes
• Frequency
  3.00 GHz 3.10 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 AMD Radeon HD 6550D
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  5
• Shader
  400
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 1 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  3
• 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
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A8-3870K and AMD Athlon II X4 651. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X4 651 and AMD A8-3870K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  100 W 100 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X4 651 and AMD Athlon II X4 651, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE3, SSE4a
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Llano Llano (K10)
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• Socket
  FM1 FM1
• Release date
  Q4/2011 Q4/2011