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AMD Athlon II X4 630: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Athlon II X4 630 sales on September 2009 at a recommended price of $63. This is a Propus architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2800 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM3 processor with a TDP of 95 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 1.69% of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
Athlon II X4 630 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 1984 | |
| Value for money | 6.02 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Architecture codename | Propus (2009−2011) | |
| Release date | September 2009 (14 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $63 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $26 (0.4x MSRP) | of 15710 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Boost clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 786432 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940H) |
| Die size | 169 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 300 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon II X4 630 compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M) |
| Socket | AM3 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon II X4 630's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940H) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon II X4 630. Overall benchmark performance 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.
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%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 41%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 41%
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Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Athlon II X4 630. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 3.6 Mh/s |
Relative perfomance
Overall Athlon II X4 630 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon II X4 630 is Pentium G3430, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest Intel rivals to Athlon II X4 630:
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon II X4 630, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon II X4 630 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3269 configurations based on Athlon II X4 630 in our database.
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