A6-3500: specs and benchmarks

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A6-3500
2011
3 cores / 3 threads, 65 Watt
0.89

A6-3500 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.89% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started A6-3500 sales 17 August 2011. This is a Llano architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 3 cores and 3 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2400 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FM1 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

A6-3500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2553
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency1.30of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameLlano (2011−2012)
Release date17 August 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores3 (Tri-Core)
Threads3
Base clock speed2.1 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed2.4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography32 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size228 mm2
Number of transistors1,178 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on A6-3500 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFM1
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A6-3500's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A6-3500.

Integrated graphics cardRadeon HD 6530D

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A6-3500. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

A6-3500 0.89

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

A6-3500 1420

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

A6-3500 262

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

A6-3500 628

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

A6-3500's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


A4-6300 101.12
A6-3500 100
Celeron G555 97.75

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A6-3500 is Pentium G2020T, which is faster by 1% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to A6-3500:

Pentium G645 101.12
Pentium G6960 101.12
A6-3500 100
Celeron G555 97.75

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for A6-3500, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for A6-3500 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1125 configurations using A6-3500 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (7/1125)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.2% (2/1125)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.09% (1/1125)
RX 6900 Radeon RX 6900
0.2% (2/1125)
RX 7700 XT Radeon RX 7700 XT
0.09% (1/1125)
RX 6800 Radeon RX 6800
0.09% (1/1125)
RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
0.09% (1/1125)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.09% (1/1125)
RX 6700 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.09% (1/1125)

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