Phenom II X4 N970: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Phenom II X4 N970 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.02% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
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Summary
AMD started Phenom II X4 N970 sales 16 December 2010. This is a Champlain architecture notebook 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 2200 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is S1 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt.
Primary details
Phenom II X4 N970 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2597 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | 4x AMD Phenom II | |
| Power efficiency | 2.81 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Architecture codename | Champlain (2010−2011) | |
| Release date | 16 December 2010 (14 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 | |
| Boost clock speed | 2.2 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Bus rate | 3600 MHz | |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | of 3 nm (EPYC 9965) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Phenom II X4 N970 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.
| Socket | S1 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 500 Watt (EPYC 9965) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Phenom II X4 N970. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Phenom II X4 N970 is Core M-5Y10, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Phenom II X4 N970, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Phenom II X4 N970 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 472 configurations using Phenom II X4 N970 in our database.
