Athlon Neo MV-40 vs Pentium Dual T3400

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Dual Core T3400
2008
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.42
+147%
Athlon Neo MV-40
2009
1 core / 1 thread, 15 Watt
0.17

Pentium Dual Core T3400 outperforms Athlon Neo MV-40 by a whopping 147% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking31193404
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium Dual CoreAMD Athlon Neo
Power efficiency1.151.09
DesignerIntelAMD
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Huron (2009)
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)6 January 2009 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Athlon Neo MV-40 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 cores2 (Dual-core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads21
Boost clock speed2.16 GHz1.6 GHz
Bus rate667 MHz1600 MHz
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache1 MB512 KB
Chip lithography65 nm65 nm
Die size143 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data95 °C
Number of transistors291 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Athlon Neo MV-40 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.

SocketPPGA478ASB1
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Athlon Neo MV-40. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization
VirusProtect-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Dual Core T3400 and Athlon Neo MV-40 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

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.

Pentium Dual T3400 0.42
+147%
Athlon Neo MV-40 0.17

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.

Pentium Dual T3400 667
+140%
Athlon Neo MV-40 278

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Pentium Dual T3400 2026
+59%
Athlon Neo MV-40 1274

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Pentium Dual T3400 3817
+232%
Athlon Neo MV-40 1149

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Pentium Dual T3400 1779
+190%
Athlon Neo MV-40 614

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Pentium Dual T3400 38.5
+165%
Athlon Neo MV-40 102

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.42 0.17
Recency 1 October 2008 6 January 2009
Physical cores 2 1
Threads 2 1
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Pentium Dual T3400 has a 147.1% higher aggregate performance score, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Athlon Neo MV-40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

The Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400 is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 in performance tests.

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