Pentium Silver vs Phenom II X4 820

Primary details

Comparing Phenom II X4 820 and Pentium Silver processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2254	1950
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.10	no data
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Power efficiency	1.31	no data
Architecture codename	Deneb (2009−2011)	no data
Release date	1 September 2009 (15 years ago)	1 July 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$90	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X4 820 and Pentium Silver 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	4 (Quad-Core)	no data
Threads	4	no data
Base clock speed	2.8 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.8 GHz	no data
L1 cache	128 KB (per core)	no data
L2 cache	512 KB (per core)	no data
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	no data
Chip lithography	45 nm	no data
Die size	258 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	758 million	no data
64 bit support	+	-
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X4 820 and Pentium Silver 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 configuration	1	no data
Socket	AM3	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X4 820 and Pentium Silver are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X4 820 and Pentium Silver. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

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Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

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Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Phenom II X4 820 and Pentium Silver.

PCIe version

2.0

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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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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.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	1.36	2.00
Recency	1 September 2009	1 July 2020

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