AMD Athlon II X4 860K vs AMD C-30. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD Athlon II AMD C
• Generation
  1 1
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Kaveri) AMD C

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.

• Frequency
  3.70 GHz 1.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 1
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 1
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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 6250
• GPU frequency
  0.28 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  1
• Shader
  80
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 1 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  3
• DirectX Version
  11
• Technology
  40 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2010

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
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD C-30 and AMD Athlon II X4 860K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1066
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 1

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X4 860K and AMD C-30 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  95 W 9 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X4 860K and AMD Athlon II X4 860K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE3, SSE4a
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kaveri Ontario (Bobcat)
• Technology
  32 nm 40 nm
• Socket
  FM2+ BGA 413
• Release date
  Q4/2014 Q1/2011