Athlon II X4 641 vs Pro A10-8700B
Aggregate performance score
Athlon II X4 641 outperforms Pro A10-8700B by a small 7% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 2523 | 2463 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop processor |
| Series | AMD Carrizo | no data |
| Power efficiency | no data | 1.41 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Architecture codename | Carrizo (2015−2018) | Llano (2011−2012) |
| Release date | 3 June 2015 (10 years ago) | 6 February 2012 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641 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 | 4 (Quad-Core) | 4 (Quad-Core) |
| Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 1.8 GHz | 2.8 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3.2 GHz | 2.8 GHz |
| L1 cache | no data | 128 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 2048 KB | 1 MB (per core) |
| L3 cache | no data | 0 KB |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 32 nm |
| Die size | no data | 228 mm2 |
| Number of transistors | 3100 Million | 1,178 million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Compatibility
Information on Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641 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 | no data | 1 |
| Socket | FP4 | FM1 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 2 MB | 100 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | HSA 1.0 | no data |
| AES-NI | + | - |
| FMA | FMA4 | - |
| AVX | AVX | - |
| FRTC | + | - |
| FreeSync | + | - |
| TrueAudio | + | - |
| PowerNow | + | - |
| PowerGating | + | - |
| Out-of-band client management | + | - |
| VirusProtect | + | - |
| RAID | + | - |
| HSA | + | - |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
| IOMMU 2.0 | + | - |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3/DDR3L-2133 | DDR3 |
| Max memory channels | 2 | no data |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon R6 Graphics | no data |
| iGPU core count | 6 | no data |
| จำนวนพาธไลน์ | 384 | no data |
| Enduro | + | - |
| Switchable graphics | + | - |
| UVD | + | - |
| VCE | + | - |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641 integrated GPUs.
| DisplayPort | + | - |
| HDMI | + | - |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.
| DirectX | DirectX® 12 | no data |
| Vulkan | + | - |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pro A10-8700B and Athlon II X4 641.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | no data |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.23 | 1.31 |
| Recency | 3 June 2015 | 6 February 2012 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 32 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 2 Watt | 100 Watt |
Pro A10-8700B has an age advantage of 3 years, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 4900% lower power consumption.
Athlon II X4 641, on the other hand, has a 6.5% higher aggregate performance score.
Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between AMD Pro A10-8700B and AMD Athlon II X4 641.
Be aware that Pro A10-8700B is a notebook processor while Athlon II X4 641 is a desktop one.
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