AMD Phenom II X4 P920 vs Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

Comparative analysis of AMD Phenom II X4 P920 and Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom II X4 P920

  • CPU is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 3 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 1
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 130 nm
  • 64x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 70 Watt
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1006 vs 347
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 May 2010 vs June 2003
Number of cores 4 vs 1
Manufacturing process technology 45 nm vs 130 nm
L1 cache 512 KB vs 8 KB
L2 cache 2048 KB vs 512 KB
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 70 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark 1006 vs 347

Reasons to consider the Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

  • Around 92% higher clock speed: 3.07 GHz vs 1.6 GHz
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 657 vs 597
Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency 3.07 GHz vs 1.6 GHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 657 vs 597

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Phenom II X4 P920
CPU 2: Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
597
657
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1006
347
Name AMD Phenom II X4 P920 Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06
PassMark - Single thread mark 597 657
PassMark - CPU mark 1006 347
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1029
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 2866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 1.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4.549

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Phenom II X4 P920 Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06

Essentials

Architecture codename Champlain Northwood
Launch date 12 May 2010 June 2003
Place in performance rating 2741 2769
Series 4x AMD Phenom II
Vertical segment Laptop Laptop

Performance

64 bit support
Front-side bus (FSB) 3600 MHz
L1 cache 512 KB 8 KB
L2 cache 2048 KB 512 KB
Manufacturing process technology 45 nm 130 nm
Maximum frequency 1.6 GHz 3.07 GHz
Number of cores 4 1
Number of threads 4
Die size 131 mm
Maximum case temperature (TCase) 74 °C
Transistor count 55 million

Compatibility

Sockets supported S1 (S1g4) 478
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 70 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1

Advanced Technologies

VirusProtect
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)

Memory

Supported memory types DDR1, DDR2