AMD Phenom II X4 840 vs Intel Pentium G4560. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Phenom II Intel Pentium
• Generation
  4 7
• CPU group
  AMD Phenom II - 800/900 Intel Pentium G4000

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
  3.20 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• 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 Intel HD Graphics 610
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  96
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2016

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium G4560 and AMD Phenom II X4 840. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR2-1066 DDR4-2400
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Phenom II X4 840 and Intel Pentium G4560 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  95 W 54 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Phenom II X4 840 and AMD Phenom II X4 840, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Deneb (K10) Kaby Lake S
• Technology
  45 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 1151
• Release date
  Q1/2011 Q1/2017