Intel Core i5-4460 vs AMD Athlon X4 845. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 4000 AMD Athlon X4 (Carizzo)
• Family
  Intel Core i5 AMD Athlon
• Generation
  4 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.4 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.3 GHz 3.8 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
  11.1 -
• Execution units
  20 -
• Generation
  7.5 -
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 4600 no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  1100 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q2/2013 -
• Shader
  160 -
• Technology
  22 nm -

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon X4 845 and Intel Core i5-4460. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-2133
• PCIe lanes
  16 8
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-4460 and AMD Athlon X4 845 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  84 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-4460 and AMD Athlon X4 845, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Haswell S Carizzo
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE3
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 2 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q1/2016
• Socket
  LGA 1150 FM2+
• Technology
  22 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None