AMD A6-3400M vs AMD Turion II M500

Comparative analysis of AMD A6-3400M and AMD Turion II M500 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Virtualization, Advanced Technologies. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD A6-3400M

• CPU is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
• 2 more threads: 4 vs 2
• Around 5% higher clock speed: 2.3 GHz vs 2.2 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 45 nm
• 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 58% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1191 vs 756
• Around 73% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 721 vs 417

Reasons to consider the AMD Turion II M500

• Around 23% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 847 vs 691
• Around 5% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 243 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD A6-3400M
CPU 2: AMD Turion II M500

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	691 847
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1191 756
Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	232 243
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	721 417

Compare specifications (specs)