Comparing AMD Athlon II X2 340 vs AMD Athlon II X2 340

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• Name
  AMD Athlon II X2 340 Intel Core i7-3960X
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• Generation
  1 3
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Trinity) Intel Core i 3000X

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  3.20 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.60 GHz 3.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 12
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 4

• AES-NI
  No Yes

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 130 W

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d (C2 Stepping)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 15.00 MB
• Architecture
  Trinity Sandy Bridge E
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  FM2 LGA 2011
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q4/2011

• Used in
  Unknown Unknown