Pentium 977 vs A4-3300M

Place in performance ranking	2523	2551
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series	Intel Pentium
Architecture codename	Llano (2011−2012)	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date	14 June 2011 (12 years ago)	1 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$134
Current price	$61	$457 (3.4x MSRP)

Detailed specifications

A4-3300M and Pentium 977 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Base clock speed	1.9 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.5 GHz	1.4 GHz
L1 cache	128 KB (per core)	64K (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB (per core)	256K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	32 nm	32 nm
Die size	228 mm²	131 mm²
Maximum core temperature	no data	100 °C
Number of transistors	1,178 million	504 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on A4-3300M and Pentium 977 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	1
Socket	FS1	FCBGA1023
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A4-3300M and Pentium 977. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	3DNow!, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, DDR3 Memory Controller, Radeon HD 6480G	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI	no data	-
FMA	no data	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	no data	+
My WiFi	no data	-
Turbo Boost Technology	no data	-
Hyper-Threading Technology	no data	-
Idle States	no data	+
Thermal Monitoring	no data	+
Flex Memory Access	no data	+
Demand Based Switching	no data	-
FDI	no data	+
Fast Memory Access	no data	+
Status	no data	Discontinued

Security technologies

A4-3300M and Pentium 977 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	no data	-
EDB	no data	+
Anti-Theft	no data	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A4-3300M and Pentium 977 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	no data
VT-d	no data	-
VT-x	no data	-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A4-3300M and Pentium 977. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum memory size	no data	16.38 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	21.3 GB/s
ECC memory support	no data	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	AMD Radeon HD 6480G	Intel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors
Graphics max frequency	no data	1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A4-3300M and Pentium 977 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	no data	2
eDP	no data	+
DisplayPort	no data	+
HDMI	no data	+
SDVO	no data	+
CRT	no data	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A4-3300M and Pentium 977.

PCIe version	no data	2.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	16

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

A4-3300M 0.77
+4.1%

Pentium 977 0.74

A4-3300M outperforms Pentium 977 by 4% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

A4-3300M 1186
+3.3%

Pentium 977 1148

A4-3300M outperforms Pentium 977 by 3% in Passmark.

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

A4-3300M 1556
+8.4%

Pentium 977 1435

A4-3300M outperforms Pentium 977 by 8% in 3DMark06 CPU.

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

A4-3300M 40.2
+39.3%

Pentium 977 56

Pentium 977 outperforms A4-3300M by 39% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

A4-3300M 1
+3.7%

Pentium 977 1

A4-3300M outperforms Pentium 977 by 4% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.