AMD A8-4500M vs AMD Phenom II X3 N870

Comparative analysis of AMD A8-4500M and AMD Phenom II X3 N870 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Memory. 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD A8-4500M

• CPU is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 3
• 1 more threads: 4 vs 3
• Around 22% higher clock speed: 2.8 GHz vs 2.3 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 45 nm
• 2.7x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 2% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 917 vs 900
• Around 28% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1693 vs 1324

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom II X3 N870

• 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 4.4x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 1396 vs 319
• 3.7x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 3154 vs 850

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD A8-4500M
CPU 2: AMD Phenom II X3 N870

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	917 900
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1693 1324
Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	319 1396
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	850 3154

Compare specifications (specs)