Intel Atom C2730 vs AMD A6-3670K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Atom AMD A
• Generation
  1 1
• CPU group
  Intel Atom C2000 AMD A6-3000

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
  1.70 GHz 2.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.00 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• 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 AMD Radeon HD 6530D
• GPU frequency
  0.44 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  5
• Shader
  320
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 1 GB
• Generation
  3
• DirectX Version
  11
• Technology
  32 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 A6-3670K and Intel Atom C2730. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  8

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C2730 and AMD A6-3670K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  12 W 100 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C2730 and Intel Atom C2730, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE3, SSE4a
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Avoton Llano (K10)
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1283 FM1
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q4/2011