Athlon II N350 vs A8-3500M

Place in the ranking	2541	2888
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series	AMD Athlon II
Power efficiency	2.37	1.30
Architecture codename	Llano (2011−2012)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	14 June 2011 (13 years ago)	4 October 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A8-3500M and Athlon II N350 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	1.5 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Bus rate	no data	3200 MHz
L1 cache	128 KB (per core)	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	32 nm	45 nm
Die size	228 mm²	117.5 mm²
Number of transistors	1,178 million	234 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on A8-3500M and Athlon II N350 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	no data
Socket	FS1	S1
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-3500M and Athlon II N350. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	3DNow!, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Radeon HD 6620G	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization
VirusProtect	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-3500M and Athlon II N350 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-3500M and Athlon II N350. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon HD 6620G

no data

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.

A8-3500M 0.91
+82%

Athlon II N350 0.50

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.

A8-3500M 1400
+82.5%

Athlon II N350 767

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.91	0.50
Recency	14 June 2011	4 October 2010
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	4	2
Chip lithography	32 nm	45 nm

A8-3500M has a 82% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 months, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

The A8-3500M is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon II N350 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between A8-3500M and Athlon II N350, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.