Comparison of AMD Athlon II X2 340 and AMD Phenom II X2 B53

Attribute	AMD Athlon II X2 340 ×	AMD Phenom II X2 B53 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD Phenom II
Model	AMD Athlon II X2 340	AMD Phenom II X2 B53
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	3.2	2.8
CPU Threads	2	2
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.6	-
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	3.6	-
Encryption
AES-NI	-	-
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1600	DDR2-1066
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2012	2009
Technology (Nm)	32	-
Socket	FM2	AM3
Virtualization	amd-v	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	1	6
Architecture	Trinity	Callisto
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	65	80
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	1,860	1,802
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	77	74
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	126	142
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	0.86	0.85
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1.71	1.66
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,518	1,510
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,152	2,784