AMD A6 Pro-7050B vs AMD Athlon II M340

Comparative analysis of AMD A6 Pro-7050B and AMD Athlon II M340 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD A6 Pro-7050B

  • CPU is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 36% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 2.2 GHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 28 nm vs 45 nm
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 875 vs 858
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1009 vs 807
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 June 2014 vs 10 September 2009
Maximum frequency 3 GHz vs 2.2 GHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 45 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 875 vs 858
PassMark - CPU mark 1009 vs 807

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II M340

  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD A6 Pro-7050B
CPU 2: AMD Athlon II M340

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
875
858
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1009
807
Name AMD A6 Pro-7050B AMD Athlon II M340
PassMark - Single thread mark 875 858
PassMark - CPU mark 1009 807

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD A6 Pro-7050B AMD Athlon II M340

Essentials

Architecture codename Kaveri Caspian
Family AMD PRO A-Series Processors
Launch date 4 June 2014 10 September 2009
OPN Tray AM705BECH23JA
Place in performance rating 2350 2378
Series AMD PRO A-Series A6 APU for Laptops AMD Athlon II
Vertical segment Laptop Laptop

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.2 GHz
Compute Cores 5
Die size 245 mm
L2 cache 1 MB 1024 KB
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 45 nm
Maximum frequency 3 GHz 2.2 GHz
Number of cores 2 2
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 2 2
Transistor count 2410 Million
Unlocked
Front-side bus (FSB) 3200 MHz
L1 cache 128 KB

Memory

Max memory channels 2
Supported memory frequency 1600 MHz
Supported memory types DDR3 / DDR3L-1600

Graphics

Enduro
Graphics max frequency 533 MHz
iGPU core count 192
Number of pipelines 192
Processor graphics AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
Vulkan

Compatibility

Sockets supported FP3 Socket S1 (S1g3)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 35 Watt

Peripherals

PCI Express revision 3.0

Advanced Technologies

AMD App Acceleration
AMD Elite Experiences
AMD HD3D technology
AMD Mantle API
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC)
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
RAID
System Image Stability
TrueAudio
VirusProtect

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
IOMMU 2.0