AMD Athlon II X3 460 vs Intel Pentium G3220

AMD Athlon II X3 460
AMD Socket AM3DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 3 / May 2011
AMD Athlon II X3 460
Intel Pentium G3220
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
3000 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2013
Intel Pentium G3220

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X3 460
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G3220
    117%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X3 460
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G3220
    139%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon II X3 460
    104%
  • Intel Pentium G3220
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon II X3 460

None

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium G3220

Much higher single threaded performance (around 39% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
41 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Athlon II X3 460.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon II X3 460Intel Pentium G3220
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
NX bit
AMD Virtualization
SSSE3
SSE4.2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
CLMUL
FMA3

Architecture

AMD Athlon II X3 460Intel Pentium G3220
ArchitectureAMD K10vsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameRanavsHaswell
Release DateMay 2011vsSep 2013

Cores

AMD Athlon II X3 460Intel Pentium G3220
Cores3vs2
Threads3vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD (Haswell)

Cache

AMD Athlon II X3 460Intel Pentium G3220
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon II X3 460Intel Pentium G3220
SocketAMD Socket AM3vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA12C
Die Size169mm²vs177mm²
Process45 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon II X3 460Intel Pentium G3220
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs3000 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock200 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.4 Vvsunknown
TDP95 Wvs54 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X3 460
    2142 points
  • Intel Pentium G3220
    3360 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon II X3 460
    6426 points
  • Intel Pentium G3220
    6720 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X3 460
    4473
  • Intel Pentium G3220
    4272

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • AMD Athlon II X3 460
    1716
  • Intel Pentium G3220
    2402

points - higher is better