Pentium D 950 vs A4-5300

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Primary details

Comparing A4-5300 and Pentium D 950 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2558not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorDesktop processor
SeriesAMD A-Series (Desktop)no data
Power efficiency1.25no data
Architecture codenameTrinity (2012−2013)Presler (2005−2007)
Release date2 October 2012 (12 years ago)16 January 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$637

Detailed specifications

A4-5300 and Pentium D 950 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed3.4 GHz3.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.6 GHz3.4 GHz
L1 cache128K (per core)16 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)2 MB (per die)
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography32 nm65 nm
Die size246 mm22x 81 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno dataC1+D0=63 °C, B1=69 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)70 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,178 million376 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage rangeno data1.2V-1.3375V

Compatibility

Information on A4-5300 and Pentium D 950 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 configuration11
SocketFM2LGA775,PLGA775
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt130 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A4-5300 and Pentium D 950. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, XOP, FMA3, FMA4no data
AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Demand Based Switchingno data-
PAEno data32 Bit
FSB parityno data-

Security technologies

A4-5300 and Pentium D 950 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A4-5300 and Pentium D 950 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data-
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A4-5300 and Pentium D 950. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR1, DDR2, DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon HD 7480DOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

A4-5300 1360
+99.7%
Pentium D 950 681

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 October 2012 16 January 2006
Chip lithography 32 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 130 Watt

A4-5300 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 103.1% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A4-5300 and Pentium D 950. We've got no test results to judge.


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