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AMD Athlon II X3 425e vs Intel Pentium 3556U

AMD

AMD Athlon II X3 425e

AMD Socket AM3 2700 MHz 3 cores May 2011 DESKTOP
AMD Athlon II X3 425e
Intel

Intel Pentium 3556U

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

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X3 425e123%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X3 425e100%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U101%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X3 425e147%
  • Intel Pentium 3556U100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X3 425e

  • Much higher multi threaded performance (around 47% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium 3556U

  • 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 X3 425e.
No winner
Gaming

No clear winner declared

AMD Athlon II X3 425e
Productivity

HWSpot recommends the AMD Athlon II X3 425e

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

Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon II X3 425eIntel 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 X3 425eIntel Pentium 3556U
ArchitectureAMD K10Intel_Haswell
MarketDesktopMobile
Memory SupportDDR3DDR3
CodenameRanaHaswell
Release DateMay 2011Sep 2013

Cores

AMD Athlon II X3 425eIntel Pentium 3556U
Cores32
Threads32
SMPs11
Integrated GraphicsNoIntel HD

Cache

AMD Athlon II X3 425eIntel Pentium 3556U
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KB2048 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon II X3 425eIntel Pentium 3556U
SocketAMD Socket AM3Intel BGA1168
Max Case Tempunknown105°C
PackageuPGAFC-BGA1168
Die Size169mm²118mm²
Process45 nm22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon II X3 425eIntel Pentium 3556U
Cpu Frequency2700 MHz1700 MHz
Turbo Clocknonenone
Base Clock200 MHz100 MHz
Voltage1.25 Vunknown
TDP45 W15 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X3 425e1701 points
  • Intel Pentium 3556U1904 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X3 425e5103 points
  • Intel Pentium 3556U3808 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X3 425e3624
  • Intel Pentium 3556U2450

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X3 425e1391
  • Intel Pentium 3556U1413

points - higher is better

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