Phenom II X3 N870 vs A8-4500M

Place in performance ranking	2282	2279
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series	3x AMD Phenom II
Architecture codename	Trinity (2012−2013)	Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date	15 May 2012 (11 years ago)	16 December 2010 (13 years ago)
Current price	$179	no data

Technical specs

A8-4500M and Phenom II X3 N870 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)	3 (Tri-Core)
Threads	4	3
Base clock speed	1.9 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.8 GHz	2.3 GHz
Bus support	no data	3600 MHz
L1 cache	192 KB	384 KB
L2 cache	4 MB (shared)	1.5 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	32 nm	45 nm
Die size	246 mm²	no data
Number of transistors	1,178 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on A8-4500M and Phenom II X3 N870 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	FS1r2	S1 (S1g4)
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-4500M and Phenom II X3 N870. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMA	86x MMX(+), 3DNow!(+), SSE(1,2,3,4A),-64, AMD-V, DDR3-1333 memory controller
AES-NI	+	no data
FMA	+	no data
AVX	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-4500M and Phenom II X3 N870 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-4500M and Phenom II X3 N870. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

unknown

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon HD 7640G

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.

A8-4500M 1.07

Phenom II X3 N870 1.08
+0.9%

Phenom II X3 N870 outperforms A8-4500M by 1% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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%

A8-4500M 2

Phenom II X3 N870 2
+14.6%

Phenom II X3 N870 outperforms A8-4500M by 15% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.