AMD Opteron 3280 vs AMD Athlon II X2 370K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Opteron AMD Athlon II
• Generation
  1 1
• CPU group
  AMD Opteron 3000 AMD Athlon II (Richland)

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
  2.40 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 4.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No 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 no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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 No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon II X2 370K and AMD Opteron 3280. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 1
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Opteron 3280 and AMD Athlon II X2 370K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Opteron 3280 and AMD Opteron 3280, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE3
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Zurich (Bulldozer) Richland
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  AM3+ FM2
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q2/2013