AMD A6-3600 vs AMD Phenom II X3 700e

Comparative analysis of AMD A6-3600 and AMD Phenom II X3 700e processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Virtualization. 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 - Video Composition (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD A6-3600

• CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 3
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 45 nm
• Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2.7x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 17% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1697 vs 1451

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom II X3 700e

• Around 14% higher clock speed: 2.4 GHz vs 2.1 GHz
• Around 6% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 961 vs 909

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD A6-3600
CPU 2: AMD Phenom II X3 700e

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	909 961
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1697 1451

Compare specifications (specs)