AMD A6-9500E vs Intel Pentium B940

AMD A6-9500E
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3000 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2016
AMD A6-9500E
Intel Pentium B940
Intel Socket G2 (988B)MOBILE
2000 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2011
Intel Pentium B940

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD A6-9500E

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical single-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium B940

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD A6-9500EIntel Pentium B940
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
Intel 64
XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
Smart Cache.

Architecture

AMD A6-9500EIntel Pentium B940
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketDesktopvsMobile
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameBristol RidgevsSandy Bridge
Release DateSep 2016vsJun 2011

Cores

AMD A6-9500EIntel Pentium B940
Cores2vs2
Threads2vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon R5vsIntel HD (Sandy Bridge)

Cache

AMD A6-9500EIntel Pentium B940
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs2048 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD A6-9500EIntel Pentium B940
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket G2 (988B)
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsrPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs131mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD A6-9500EIntel Pentium B940
Cpu Frequency3000 MHzvs2000 MHz
Turbo Clock3400 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A6-9500E
    2346 points
  • Intel Pentium B940
    2000 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A6-9500E
    3601 points
  • Intel Pentium B940
    4000 points

Points - higher is better