AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE vs Intel Pentium III 1400

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE and Intel Pentium III 1400 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility, Advanced Technologies, 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 - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE

• CPU is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 2 vs 1
• Around 71% higher clock speed: 2.4 GHz vs 1.4 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 90 nm vs 130 nm
• 32x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• 3.1x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 835 vs 272
• 3.7x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 720 vs 193

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium III 1400

• 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 31.2 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE
CPU 2: Intel Pentium III 1400

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	835 272
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	720 193

Compare specifications (specs)