AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) vs Intel Pentium G640
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AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) advantages
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Intel Pentium G640 advantages
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260 vs G640 performance comparison
The charts below show performance of Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) and Pentium G640 microprocessors in a number of different application types. The results in the charts are based on a few benchmarks, that you can see in the "Benchmarks" tab. As such, the displayed results may differ from results, that you may receive in individual tests. The 'Overall performance' calculates an average of all-around performance benchmarks, and benchmarks, specific to each program type. The 'Price-performance ratio' shows how much more performance you will get per dollar spent. The cost of other system parts is not included in the ratio chart. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhaustive list of benchmarks, that demonstrate performance difference between AMD 260 and G640 in various types of programs, can be found in the "Benchmarks" tab.
260 vs G640 power consumption and price comparison
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Detailed side by side comparison of AMD 260 vs Pentium G640 specs can be found in the "Specifications" tab. Much more detailed comparison of internal features of both processors you will find in the "CPUIDs" tab.
Pros and Cons summary
| Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) | Pentium G640 |
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General recommendations: Less expensive,
Somewhat better price / performance ratio |
General recommendations: Somewhat better overall performance,
Features SSE4.1 / SSE4.2 instructions, Comes with HD (Sandy Bridge) GPU |
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Drawbacks: Rather slow,
Lacks some instructions, Comes without integrated graphics |
Drawbacks: Somewhat more expensive,
Somewhat worse price / performance ratio |
Similar processors
| Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) | Pentium G640 |
Similar microprocessors use the same socket and architecture as Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) and Pentium G640, however their performance and other characteristics are slightly different.
Specifications
| AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) | Intel Pentium G640 | |
| Basic details | ||
| Market segment | Desktop | |
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| Manufacturer | AMD | Intel |
| Family | AMD Athlon II X2 | Intel Pentium Dual-Core |
| Model number | 260 | G640 |
| CPU part number | ADX260OCK23GM | CM8062307260314 |
| Box part number | ADX260OCGMBOX | BX80623G640 BXC80623G640 |
| Introduction date | May 10, 2010 | June 3, 2012 |
| Current official price | $48 (as of Jun 2013) | $64 (as of Jan 2013) |
| CPU features | ||
| Core name | Regor | Sandy Bridge |
| Microarchitecture | K10 | Sandy Bridge |
| Technology (micron) | 0.045 | 0.032 |
| Data width (bits) | 64 | |
| Socket | Socket AM2+ / Socket AM3 | Socket 1155 |
| Frequency (MHz) | 3200 | 2800 |
| Bus speed (MHz) | 2000 (HT/QPI) | |
| Clock Multiplier | 16 | 28 |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (code) / 128 KB (data) | 64 KB (code) / 64 KB (data) |
| L2 cache (KB) | 2048 | 512 |
| L3 cache (KB) | 3072 | |
| Max temperature (°C) | 74 | 69.1 |
| TDP (Watt) | 65 | |
| Core voltage (V) | 0.825 - 1.4 | |
| Cores | 2 | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Multiprocessing | 1 | |
| Instruction set extensions | ||
| 3DNow! | + | - |
| AMD64 / EM64T 64-bit technology | + | |
| MMX | + | |
| SSE | + | |
| SSE2 | + | |
| SSE3 | + | |
| SSE4.1 | - | + |
| SSE4.2 | - | + |
| SSSE3 / Supplemental SSE3 | - | + |
| Supported technologies | ||
| PowerNow! / Enhanced SpeedStep | + | |
| Virtualization | + | |
| Virus Protection / Execute Disable bit | + | |
| Integrated Graphics | ||
| GPU Type | None | HD (Sandy Bridge) |
Rows with different specifications or features are highlighted.
For detailed specifications of "AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3)" or "Intel Pentium G640" parts please click on the links in the table header.
Benchmarks
System setup
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) and Intel Pentium G640 processors were tested using different system components, that are identified by MB, RAM and VID columns in the tables below. The numbers in each of these columns correspond to one of motherboards (MB), memory configurations (RAM) or graphics adapters (VID), listed below:
MB - Motherboard(s):
1. ASUS P8P67
2. ASROCK M3A780GXH/128M
3. ASUS P8H61-M
RAM - Memory:
1. 2 GB DUAL-CHANNEL CORSAIR TR3X3G1600C9 DDR3
2. 2 GB DUAL-CHANNEL CORSAIR CM3X1024-1333C9 DDR3
VID - Video card(s):
1. MSI R6670 1GB GDDR5 (ATI RADEON)
2. POWERCOLOR 24PRO256M DDR2 (ATI RADEON HD2400)
3. INTEGRATED ON-CHIP INTEL SANDY BRIDGE GRAPHICS
All tests were performed at default frequency and voltage, using manufacturer's stock fan/heatsink. None of the components were overclocked. Motherboard BIOS options were left at default settings.
The results of all benchmarks are broken into four categories: multi-threaded, single-threaded, memory intensive and graphics / gaming.
Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) vs Intel Pentium G640 single-threaded benchmarks
Single-threaded benchmarks run on a single CPU core, and do not depend on such features as the number of cores, or Hyper-Threading technology. Additionally, they do not utilize on-chip caches, dedicated to other cores.
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
3DMark03 CPU score benchmark | |||||
Longer is better  | MB | RAM | VID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 65.3% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 47.7% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
CINEBENCH R10 CPU score (1 core) benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.7% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 76.1% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
FLAC encoding - single process benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.4% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 92.2% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
H.264 video encoding - single process benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.3% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 81.9% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
LAME MP3 encoding - single process benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.3% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 78.9% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
PCMark2002 CPU score benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 99.8% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 96.6% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Super PI (1M) benchmark | |||||
 Shorter is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.3% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 56.1% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
XVid video encoding - single process benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 98.8% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 83.5% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) vs Intel Pentium G640 multi-threaded benchmarks
Multi-threaded benchmarks utilize all CPU cores and other on-chip resources (on-chip caches, internal buffers, etc). Intel's Hyper-Threading feature also helps to improve multi-threading performance.
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
Apache web server - dynamic pages benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.0% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 76.9% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Apache web server - static pages benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 98.5% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 72.8% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Blowfish encryption benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 99.6% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 86.8% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
CINEBENCH R10 CPU score benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.3% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 75.5% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
CINEBENCH R10 render time (seconds) benchmark | |||||
| Shorter is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.3% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 75.6% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
CrystalMark ALU benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.6% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 85.2% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
CrystalMark FPU benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.7% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
Euler3D benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 98.6% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 59.3% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
FLAC encoding - multiple processes benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.3% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 92.1% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Fritz Chess Benchmark benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 98.7% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 91.3% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
H.264 video encoding - multiple processes benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.2% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 81.9% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
H.264 video encoding - multithreaded benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.3% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 83.6% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
LAME MP3 encoding - multiple processes benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.4% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 78.8% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sandra Dhrystone (MIPS) benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 99.4% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 87.0% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sandra MultiMedia Floating Point (it/s) benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 99.8% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 91.8% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
Sandra MultiMedia Integer (it/s) benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 74.0% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 73.8% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sandra Whetstone (MFLOPS) benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 84.4% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 84.2% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sandra Whetstone SSE2 (MFLOPS) benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 99.7% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 92.9% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
XVid video encoding - multiple processes benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 98.5% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 84.5% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
wPrime v1.55 (32M) benchmark | |||||
| Shorter is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 99.7% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 96.8% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) vs Intel Pentium G640 graphics benchmarks
Graphics benchmarks depend on the type of integrated or discrete graphics adapter, and to less extent on the processor performance. Because these benchmarks are synthetic, they may not truly represent gaming performance. However, they still can used to estimate whether one processor will perform faster or slower in games than another CPU.
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
3DMark03 game score benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
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| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.5% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8.9% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
3DMark2001 score benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 33.5% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 24.8% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
CINEBENCH R10 OpenGL score benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 32.4% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 26.6% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) vs Intel Pentium G640 memory performance
Memory-intensive tests or programs move large amounts of data to/from memory, and they depend more on memory throughput and the size of on-chip caches, rather than on CPU integer/FP/SIMD performance.
AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) Intel Pentium G640 | |||||
7Zip compressing/decompressing speed benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 98.8% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 95.7% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
CrystalMark Memory benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 90.0% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 61.0% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
PCMark2002 Memory score benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 98.6% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 51.7% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
WinRAR compressing/decompressing speed benchmark | |||||
| Longer is better | MB | RAM | VID | ||
| 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 97.5% | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 84.2% | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
CPUIDs
The table below compares two random CPUID records for AMD Athlon II X2 260 (rev. C3) and Intel Pentium G640 microprocessors, that were submitted to our CPUID database. Please note that different steppings of Intel processors, identified by S-spec numbers or CPUID, may have slightly different features. For that reason the comparison table below only applies to CPUs with specific S-Spec number / CPUID.
| CPUID 1 | CPUID 2 | |
| Manufacturer | AMD | Intel |
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| CPU Family | Athlon II X2 | Pentium Dual-Core |
| Model / Processor Number | 260 | G640 |
| Frequency | 3192 MHz | 2809 MHz |
| CWID version | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Part number | ADX260OCK23GM | CM8062307260314 |
| S-Spec / Stepping Code | NAEGC AE 1012BPMW | SR059 |
| General information | ||
| Vendor | AuthenticAMD | GenuineIntel |
| Processor name (BIOS) | AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 260 Processor | Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G640 @ 2.80GHz |
| Cores | 2 | |
| Logical processors | 2 | |
| Processor type | Original OEM Processor | |
| CPUID signature | DA-C3 | 206A7 |
| Family | 100F63 | 6 (06h) |
| Model | 16 (010h) | 42 (02Ah) |
| Stepping | 6 (06h) | 7 (07h) |
| TLB/Cache details | 3 (03h) | 64-byte Prefetching Data TLB0: 2-MB or 4-MB pages, 4-way associative, 32 entries Data TLB: 4-KB Pages, 4-way set associative, 64 entries Instruction TLB: 4-KB Pages, 4-way set associative, 128 entries L2 TLB: 1-MB, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size Shared 2nd-level TLB: 4 KB pages, 4-way set associative, 512 entries |
| Cache | ||
| L1 data: Associativity | 2-way set associative | 8-way set associative |
| L1 data: Comments | Direct-mapped | |
| L1 data: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L1 data: Lines per tag | 1 | |
| L1 data: Size | 2 x 64 KB | 2 x 32 KB |
| L1 instruction: Associativity | 2-way set associative | 8-way set associative |
| L1 instruction: Comments | Direct-mapped | |
| L1 instruction: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L1 instruction: Lines per tag | 1 | |
| L1 instruction: Size | 2 x 64 KB | 2 x 32 KB |
| L2: Associativity | 16-way set associative | 8-way set associative |
| L2: Comments | Non-inclusive|Direct-mapped | |
| L2: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L2: Lines per tag | 1 | |
| L2: Size | 2 x 1 MB | 2 x 256 KB |
| L3: Associativity | 12-way set associative | |
| L3: Comments | Inclusive|Shared between all cores | |
| L3: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L3: Size | 3 MB | |
| Instruction set extensions | ||
| 3DNow! | + | - |
| AMD extensions to MMX | + | - |
| Extensions to 3DNow! | + | - |
| MMX | + | |
| SSE | + | |
| SSE2 | + | |
| SSE3 | + | |
| SSE4.1 | - | + |
| SSE4.2 | - | + |
| SSE4A | + | - |
| SSSE3 | - | + |
| Additional instructions | ||
| Advanced Bit manipulation | + | - |
| CLFLUSH | + | |
| CMOV | + | |
| CMPXCHG16B | + | |
| CMPXCHG8B | + | |
| FXSAVE/FXRSTORE | + | |
| MONITOR/MWAIT | + | |
| PCLMULDQ | - | + |
| POPCNT | + | |
| PREFETCH/PREFETCHW | + | - |
| RDTSCP | + | |
| SKINIT / STGI support | + | - |
| SYSCALL/SYSRET | + | - |
| SYSENTER/SYSEXIT | + | |
| XSAVE / XRESTORE states | - | + |
| Major features | ||
| 64-bit / Intel 64 | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep | - | + |
| Intel Virtualization | - | + |
| NX bit/XD-bit | + | |
| On-chip Floating Point Unit | + | |
| PowerNow! / Cool'n'Quiet | + | - |
| Secure Virtual Machine (Virtualization) | + | - |
| Other features | ||
| 1 GB large page support | + | - |
| 100MHz multiplier control | + | - |
| 128-bit SSE instructions | + | - |
| 36-bit page-size extensions | + | |
| 64-bit debug store | - | + |
| Advanced programmable interrupt controller | + | |
| CPL qualified debug store | - | + |
| Core multi-processing legacy mode | + | - |
| Debug store | - | + |
| Debugging extensions | + | |
| Digital Thermal Sensor capability | - | + |
| Extended APIC space | + | - |
| Hardware P-state control | + | - |
| Hardware thermal control | + | - |
| Instruction based sampling | + | - |
| LAHF / SAHF support in 64-bit mode | + | |
| LBR virtualization | + | - |
| LOCK MOV CR0 means MOV CR8 | + | - |
| Machine check architecture | + | |
| Machine check exception | + | |
| Memory-type range registers | + | |
| Misaligned SSE mode | + | - |
| Model-specific registers | + | |
| Nested page tables | + | - |
| OS visible workaround | + | - |
| Page attribute table | + | |
| Page global extension | + | |
| Page-size extensions (4MB pages) | + | |
| Pending break enable | - | + |
| Perfmon and Debug capability | - | + |
| Physical address extensions | + | |
| Power Limit Notification capability | - | + |
| Process context identifiers | - | + |
| SVM lock | + | - |
| Self-snoop | - | + |
| Software thermal control | + | - |
| Support for NRIP save | + | - |
| THERMTRIP | + | - |
| TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states | + | |
| Temperature sensor | + | - |
| Thermal monitor | - | + |
| Thermal monitor 2 | - | + |
| Thermal monitor and software controlled clock facilities | - | + |
| Time stamp counter | + | |
| Timestamp counter deadline | - | + |
| Virtual 8086-mode enhancements | + | |
| Watchdog timer support | + | - |
| xTPR Update Control | - | + |
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