Athlon II X4 740: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Athlon II X4 740 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.67% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Athlon II X4 740 sales 1 October 2012 at a recommended price of $71. This is a Piledriver architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3700 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is Socket FM2 processor with a TDP of 65 watt.
Primary details
Athlon II X4 740 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2072 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Series | Athlon | |
| Architecture codename | Piledriver | |
| Release date | 1 October 2012 (12 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $71 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
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 cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.7 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 192 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 4 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 3 nm (EPYC 9845) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon II X4 740 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | Socket FM2 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon II X4 740. 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.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon II X4 740 is Core i3-7102E, which is slower by 3% and lower by 22 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon II X4 740, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon II X4 740 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1320 configurations using Athlon II X4 740 in our database.
