AMD Phenom II P960 vs A8 3500M |
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Released June, 2011
AMD A8 3500M
- 1.5 GHz
- Quad core
Reasons to buy the A8 3500M
 | Has a built-in GPU Yes |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| CPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the Phenom II P960 vs the A8 3500M. | |||||||
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| Has a built-in GPU | Yes | vs | No | Somewhat common; A separate graphics adapter is not required | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Phenom II P960 vs A8 3500M
GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs
GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs
GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs
GeekBench (32-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs
GeekBench
PassMark Data courtesy Passmark
PassMark (Single Core)
Specifications Full list of technical specs
summary | Phenom II P960 | vs | A8 3500M |
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| Clock speed | 1.8 GHz | 1.5 GHz | |
| Cores | Quad core | Quad core | |
| Is unlocked | No | No | |
features | |||
| Has a NX bit | Yes | Yes | |
| Has virtualization support | Yes | Yes | |
| Instruction set extensions | |||
| SSE4a | |||
| SSE2 | |||
| MMX | |||
| SSE3 | |||
| SSE | |||
| AMD64 | |||
| AMD-V | |||
| 3DNow! | |||
| Supports dynamic frequency scaling | Yes | Yes | |
power consumption | |||
| TDP | 25W | 35W | |
| Annual home energy cost | 6.02 $/year | 8.43 $/year | |
| Performance per watt | 3.46 pt/W | 3.5 pt/W | |
| Typical power consumption | 20.31W | 28.44W | |
details | Phenom II P960 | vs | A8 3500M |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | x86-64 | x86-64 | |
| Threads | 4 | 4 | |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 4 MB | |
| L2 cache per core | 0.5 MB/core | 1 MB/core | |
| L3 cache | 0 MB | 1 MB | |
| L3 cache per core | 0 MB/core | 0.25 MB/core | |
| Manufacture process | 45 nm | 32 nm | |
| Max CPUs | 1 | 1 | |
overclocking | |||
| Overclocked clock speed | 1.82 GHz | 2.73 GHz | |
| Overclocked clock speed (Water) | 1.8 GHz | 1.5 GHz | |
| Overclocked clock speed (Air) | 1.82 GHz | 2.73 GHz | |
integrated graphics | |||
| GPU | None | GPU | |
| Label | N/A | Radeon™ HD 6620G | |
| Latest DirectX | N/A | 11.0 | |
| GPU clock speed | N/A | 444 MHz | |
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