Intel Pentium N3520 vs AMD Athlon II X4 641. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 AMD Athlon II X4 (Llano)
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Athlon II
• Generation
  6 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
  2.17 GHz 2.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.42 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  2.42 GHz -
• Core Configuration
  - 4x

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
  11.2 -
• Execution units
  4 -
• Generation
  7 -
• GPU Frequency
  310 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  850 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2013 -
• Shader
  32 -
• 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 II X4 641 and Intel Pentium N3520. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  4 -
• PCIe version
  2.0 -
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 21.3 GB/s
• PCIe
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium N3520 and AMD Athlon II X4 641 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)
  7.5 W 100 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium N3520 and AMD Athlon II X4 641, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Bay Trail Llano
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a
• L2-Cache
  - 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  2 MB -
• Part Number
  - AD638XOJGXBOX
• Release date
  Q4/2013 Q1/2012
• Socket
  BGA 1170 FM1
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT AMD-V