AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X4 640 and AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score, 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 - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X4 640

• CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• 3 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 1
• Around 15% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 2.6 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 90 nm
• 4x 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
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1212 vs 489
• 5.2x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 2245 vs 430

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640

• 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X4 640
CPU 2: AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1212 489
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2245 430

Compare specifications (specs)