Intel Pentium N3710 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Compare Intel Pentium N Series 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

471 points

721 points

53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

855 points

1593 points

86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

364 points

510 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

351 points

489 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

2.81 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,076th of 1,089

1,025th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium N3710 vs Athlon II X2 220 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium N3710 performs better than the Athlon II X2 220. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium N3710 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon II X2 220 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 220 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium N3710.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Pentium N3710 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.