AMD Athlon II X4 860K vs Intel Core i3-1215U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Kaveri) Intel Core i 1200P/1200U
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i3
• Generation
  1 12
• 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
  - 2x Golden Cove
• B-Core
  - 4x Gracemont
• Base Frequency
  3.7 GHz 1.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4 GHz 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 1.8 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
  - 12.1
• Execution units
  - 64
• Generation
  - 13
• GPU Frequency
  - 300 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1100 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 4
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2022
• Shader
  - 512
• Technology
  - 10 nm

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

• AV1
  No Decode
• 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
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-1215U and AMD Athlon II X4 860K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• PCIe
  - 4.0 x 28

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X4 860K and Intel Core i3-1215U 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
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  95 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 55 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X4 860K and Intel Core i3-1215U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kaveri Alder Lake U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  - 4.5 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 10 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2014 Q1/2022
• Socket
  FM2+ BGA 1744
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d