A4-3310MX vs Core 2 Duo P8600

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Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2846not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 DuoAMD A-Series
Power efficiency2.01no data
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)Llano (2011−2012)
Release date15 July 2008 (16 years ago)14 June 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$209no data

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.4 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz2.5 GHz
Bus rate1066 MHzno data
L1 cache128 KB128 KB (per core)
L2 cache3 MB1 MB (per core)
L3 cache3 MB L2 Cache0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm32 nm
Die size81 mm2228 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors274 Million1,178 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
VID voltage range1.05V-1.15Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX 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.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketBGA479,PBGA479,PGA478FS1
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno data3DNow!, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Radeon HD 6480G
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon HD 6480G

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 847
+8.3%
A4-3310MX 782

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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 280
A4-3310MX 292
+4.3%

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.

Core 2 Duo P8600 468
A4-3310MX 502
+7.3%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Core 2 Duo P8600 34.63
+19.8%
A4-3310MX 41.5

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Core 2 Duo P8600 1
+12.3%
A4-3310MX 1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 July 2008 14 June 2011
Chip lithography 45 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 35 Watt

Core 2 Duo P8600 has 40% lower power consumption.

A4-3310MX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Core 2 Duo P8600 and A4-3310MX. We've got no test results to judge.


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