A6-1450 vs Pentium D 820

Primary details

Comparing Pentium D 820 and A6-1450 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	2728
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	Pentium D	AMD A-Series
Power efficiency	no data	4.27
Architecture codename	Smithfield (2005)	Temash (2013)
Release date	May 2005 (19 years ago)	23 May 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium D 820 and A6-1450 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	2 (Dual-core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	2.8 GHz	1 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.8 GHz	1.4 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	no data
L1 cache	28 KB	128K (per core)
L2 cache	2 MB	512K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	0 KB
Chip lithography	90 nm	32 nm
Die size	206 mm2	246 mm2
Maximum core temperature	64 °C	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	169 million	1,178 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
VID voltage range	1.2V-1.4V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium D 820 and A6-1450 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	2	1
Socket	PLGA775	FT3
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	8 - 15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium D 820 and A6-1450. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX
AES-NI	-	+
AVX	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	-	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
PAE	32 Bit	no data
FSB parity	-	no data

Security technologies

Pentium D 820 and A6-1450 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium D 820 and A6-1450 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-d	-	no data
VT-x	-	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium D 820 and A6-1450. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR1, DDR2, DDR3

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon HD 8250

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Pros & cons summary

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Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	90 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	8 Watt

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