Intel Pentium N3540 vs AMD A10-7400P. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 AMD A10-7000
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD A
• Generation
  6 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• Base Frequency
  2.16 GHz 2.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.66 GHz 3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  2.66 GHz 3.4 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
  11.2 12
• Execution units
  4 6
• Generation
  7 6
• GPU Frequency
  310 MHz 580 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri)
• GPU Turbo
  900 MHz 650 MHz
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2015
• Shader
  32 384
• Technology
  22 nm 28 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A10-7400P and Intel Pentium N3540. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM DDR3-1866
• PCIe lanes
  4 16
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium N3540 and AMD A10-7400P 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 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium N3540 and AMD A10-7400P, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Bay Trail Kaveri (Steamroller)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q2/2014
• Socket
  BGA 1170 FM2+
• Technology
  22 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT AMD-V