Comparison of AMD Athlon II X2 340 and Intel Pentium D1509

Attribute	AMD Athlon II X2 340 ×	Intel Pentium D1509 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Athlon II	Intel Pentium
Model	AMD Athlon II X2 340	Intel Pentium D1509
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	3.2	1.5
CPU Threads	2	2
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.6	1.5
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	3.6	1.5
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	DDR4-2133
PCIe lanes	-	32
PCIe version	-	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	1	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2012	2015
Technology (Nm)	32	14
Socket	FM2	AM1
Virtualization	amd-v	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	1	3
Architecture	Trinity	Braswell
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	65	19
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	1,860	671
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	77	25
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	126	46
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	0.86	0.3
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1.71	0.57
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,518	630
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,152	1,088