AMD Athlon II X4 631: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Athlon II X4 631 sales 17 August 2011. This is a Llano architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2.6 and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FM1 processor with a TDP of 100 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 1.40% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

Athlon II X4 631 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2086
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money6.60
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameLlano (2011−2012)
Release date17 August 2011 (12 years old)
Current price$22 of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed2.6 GHzof 4.7 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed2.6 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 36 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache0 KBof 786432 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography32 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size228 mm2
Number of transistors1,178 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II X4 631 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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFM1
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon II X4 631's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon II X4 631. 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.

Athlon II X4 631 1.40

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%

Athlon II X4 631 2150

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: 42%

Athlon II X4 631 309

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: 42%

Athlon II X4 631 1099

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Athlon II X4 631 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon II X4 631 is Celeron G5905T, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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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 631, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon II X4 631 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1676 configurations based on Athlon II X4 631 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.3% (5/1676)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (2/1676)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.3% (5/1676)
RX 7700 XT Radeon RX 7700 XT
0.1% (2/1676)
RX 6700 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.06% (1/1676)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.06% (1/1676)
RX 6700 Radeon RX 6700
0.06% (1/1676)
TITAN V TITAN V
0.06% (1/1676)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.1% (2/1676)
RX 5700 XT Radeon RX 5700 XT
0.06% (1/1676)

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