Athlon X4 740: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Athlon X4 740 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.64% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
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Summary
AMD started Athlon X4 740 sales 2 October 2012. This is a Trinity 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 3700 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FM2 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt and a maximum temperature of 74 °C. It supports DDR3-1866 memory.
Primary details
Athlon X4 740 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2216 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Power efficiency | 2.43 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Manufacturer | GlobalFoundries | |
| Architecture codename | Trinity (2012−2013) | |
| Release date | 2 October 2012 (12 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.7 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 192K | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 4 MB (shared) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 246 mm2 | |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 74 °C | of 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 1,303 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon X4 740 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 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FM2 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon X4 740. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| FMA | + | |
| AVX | + |
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 X4 740's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3-1866 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon X4 740. 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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon X4 740 is Core i5-680, which is faster by 1% 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 X4 740, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon X4 740 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3254 configurations using Athlon X4 740 in our database.
