AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Pentium 4 506

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X4 640 and Intel Pentium 4 506 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. 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 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• 3 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 1
• Around 13% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 2.66 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 90 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
• Around 88% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 1191 vs 634

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium 4 506

• Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 84 Watt vs 95 Watt
• Around 73% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 620 vs 358

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X4 640
CPU 2: Intel Pentium 4 506

Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	358 620
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	1191 634

Compare specifications (specs)