Pro A6-8500B vs Athlon II N330

Primary details

Comparing Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	2451
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD Carrizo
Power efficiency	no data	6.38
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Carrizo (2015−2018)
Release date	12 May 2010 (14 years ago)	3 June 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	no data	1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.3 GHz	3 GHz
Bus rate	3200 MHz	no data
L1 cache	256 KB	no data
L2 cache	1 MB	1024 KB
Chip lithography	45 nm	28 nm
Die size	117.5 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	234 Million	3100 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B compatibility with other computer components: 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.

Socket	S1	FP4
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization	HSA 1.0
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	-	FMA4
AVX	-	AVX
FRTC	-	+
FreeSync	-	+
TrueAudio	-	+
PowerNow	-	+
PowerGating	-	+
Out-of-band client management	-	+
VirusProtect	+	+
RAID	-	+
HSA	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	+
IOMMU 2.0	-	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR3/DDR3L-1600
Max memory channels	no data	2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	no data	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
iGPU core count	no data	4
Number of pipelines	no data	256
Enduro	-	+
Switchable graphics	-	+
UVD	-	+
VCE	-	+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort	-	+
HDMI	-	+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	no data	DirectX® 12
Vulkan	-	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II N330 and Pro A6-8500B.

PCIe version

no data

3.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 May 2010	3 June 2015
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	45 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

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