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AMD Athlon II X2 280 vs Intel Core i3-4000M

AMD

AMD Athlon II X2 280

AMD Socket AM3 3600 MHz 2 cores Feb 2013 DESKTOP
AMD Athlon II X2 280
Intel

Intel Core i3-4000M

Intel Socket G3 2400 MHz 2 cores Sep 2013 MOBILE
Intel Core i3-4000M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X2 280100%
  • Intel Core i3-4000M115%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X2 280100%
  • Intel Core i3-4000M108%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X2 280100%
  • Intel Core i3-4000M123%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X2 280

  • None

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i3-4000M

  • 8% higher single threaded performance.
  • Much higher multi threaded performance (around 23% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
  • Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Athlon II X2 280.
  • Around 15% higher average synthetic performance.
Intel Core i3-4000M
Gaming

HWSpot recommends the Intel Core i3-4000M

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i3-4000M
Productivity

HWSpot recommends the Intel Core i3-4000M

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

Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon II X2 280Intel Core i3-4000M
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
NX bit
AMD Virtualization
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading

Architecture

AMD Athlon II X2 280Intel Core i3-4000M
ArchitectureAMD K10Intel_Haswell
MarketDesktopMobile
Memory SupportDDR2, DDR3DDR3
CodenameRegorHaswell
Release DateFeb 2013Sep 2013

Cores

AMD Athlon II X2 280Intel Core i3-4000M
Cores22
Threads24
SMPs11
Integrated GraphicsNoIntel HD 4600

Cache

AMD Athlon II X2 280Intel Core i3-4000M
L1 Cache128 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache1024 KB256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KB3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon II X2 280Intel Core i3-4000M
SocketAMD Socket AM3Intel Socket G3
Max Case Tempunknownunknown
PackageuPGAFC-PGA946
Die Size117mm²118mm²
Process45 nm22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon II X2 280Intel Core i3-4000M
Cpu Frequency3600 MHz2400 MHz
Turbo Clocknonenone
Base Clock200 MHz100 MHz
Voltage1.15 Vunknown
TDP65 W37 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2802268 points
  • Intel Core i3-4000M2688 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2804536 points
  • Intel Core i3-4000M6451 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2803308
  • Intel Core i3-4000M4070

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X2 2801785
  • Intel Core i3-4000M1937

points - higher is better

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