Intel Pentium N3700 vs AMD Sempron 3850. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Sempron
• Generation
  7 1
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J3000/N3700 AMD Sempron 2000/3000

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
  1.60 GHz 1.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.40 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  2.40 GHz No turbo
• 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
  Intel HD Graphics 405 (16EU) AMD Radeon HD 8280
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz 0.45 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.70 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  16 2
• Shader
  128 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  8 5
• DirectX Version
  12 11.1
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q2/2013

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
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Sempron 3850 and Intel Pentium N3700. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  4

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium N3700 and AMD Sempron 3850 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 25 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium N3700 and Intel Pentium N3700, 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 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Braswell Kabini (Jaguar)
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1170 AM1
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q2/2014