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AMD Athlon II X2 270 vs Intel Pentium 3556U

AMD

AMD Athlon II X2 270

AMD Socket AM3 3400 MHz 2 cores Jul 2011 DESKTOP
AMD Athlon II X2 270
Intel

Intel Pentium 3556U

Intel BGA1168 1700 MHz 2 cores Sep 2013 MOBILE
Intel Pentium 3556U

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X2 270120%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X2 270117%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X2 270122%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X2 270

  • 17% higher single threaded performance.
  • Much higher multi threaded performance (around 22% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
  • Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium 3556U

  • 50 watts lower power draw.
  • This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
  • Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Athlon II X2 270.
AMD Athlon II X2 270
Gaming

HWSpot recommends the AMD Athlon II X2 270

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon II X2 270
Productivity

HWSpot recommends the AMD Athlon II X2 270

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.

Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon II X2 270Intel Pentium 3556U
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
NX bit
AMD Virtualization
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
EIST
64-bit
XD bit
VT-x
Smart Cache

Architecture

AMD Athlon II X2 270Intel Pentium 3556U
ArchitectureAMD K10Intel_Haswell
MarketDesktopMobile
Memory SupportDDR2, DDR3DDR3
CodenameRegorHaswell
Release DateJul 2011Sep 2013

Cores

AMD Athlon II X2 270Intel Pentium 3556U
Cores22
Threads22
SMPs11
Integrated GraphicsNoIntel HD

Cache

AMD Athlon II X2 270Intel Pentium 3556U
L1 Cache128 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache1024 KB256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KB2048 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon II X2 270Intel Pentium 3556U
SocketAMD Socket AM3Intel BGA1168
Max Case Tempunknown105°C
PackageuPGAFC-BGA1168
Die Size117mm²118mm²
Process45 nm22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon II X2 270Intel Pentium 3556U
Cpu Frequency3400 MHz1700 MHz
Turbo Clocknonenone
Base Clock200 MHz100 MHz
Voltage1.15 Vunknown
TDP65 W15 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2702142 points
  • Intel Pentium 3556U1904 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2704284 points
  • Intel Pentium 3556U3808 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2702993
  • Intel Pentium 3556U2450

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2701666
  • Intel Pentium 3556U1413

points - higher is better

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