AMD Phenom II X4 N970 vs AMD Mobile Sempron SI-40

Comparative analysis of AMD Phenom II X4 N970 and AMD Mobile Sempron SI-40 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom II X4 N970

• CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• 3 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 1
• 3 more threads: 4 vs 1
• Around 10% higher clock speed: 2.2 GHz vs 2 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 65 nm
• 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 43% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 904 vs 631
• 5.9x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1687 vs 288

Reasons to consider the AMD Mobile Sempron SI-40

• Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Phenom II X4 N970
CPU 2: AMD Mobile Sempron SI-40

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	904 631
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1687 288

Compare specifications (specs)