AMD A8-3520M

The AMD A8-3520M operates with:

CPU Cores 4.

CPU Threads: 4.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: 2.50 GHz base 2.50 GHz all cores.

TDP: 35 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: FS1.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support DDR3-1333 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Llano (K10) Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 32 nm

Virtualization AMD-V.

The product was released on Q4/2011.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

AMD A8-3520M

Family:

AMD A

CPU group:

AMD A6-3000M

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.60 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

2.50 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Yes

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

DDR3-1333

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

DDR3-1333

GPU name:

AMD Radeon HD 6620G

GPU frequency:

0.44 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

400

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

32 nm

Release date:

Q2/2011

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Llano (K10)

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

AMD-V

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q4/2011

Socket:

FS1

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

35 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

AMD A6-4455M 283 (15%)

Intel Celeron N3450 281 (15%)

Apple A7 278 (15%)

AMD A8-3520M 277 (15%)

AMD A4-3305M 276 (15%)

AMD A4-3310MX 273 (14%)

AMD A6-3410MX 271 (14%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

HiSilicon Kirin 658 815 (2%)

AMD Athlon 5350 807 (2%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 803 (2%)

AMD A8-3520M 799 (2%)

Intel Core i3-3227U 799 (2%)

Samsung Exynos 5433 798 (2%)

HiSilicon Kirin 655 794 (2%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

AMD A10-4655M 358 (3%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G 358 (3%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 358 (3%)

AMD A8-3520M 355 (3%)

AMD A8-3550MX 355 (3%)

AMD A8-3530MX 355 (3%)

AMD A8-3510MX 355 (3%)

Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 3 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

AMD A8-6410 1136 (16%)

AMD A10-5745M 1132 (16%)

AMD Athlon 5350 1123 (16%)

AMD A8-3520M 1115 (16%)

Intel Celeron N3450 1111 (16%)

Intel Pentium J3710 1111 (16%)

AMD A4-3330MX 1106 (16%)

Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 3 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Intel Pentium 3560M 3421 (4%)

Intel Core i3-4005U 3410 (4%)

AMD A8-4500M 3398 (4%)

AMD A8-3520M 3390 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X3 700e 3390 (4%)

Intel Core i3-4030Y 3389 (4%)

Intel Pentium N3700 3386 (4%)

Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

AMD A4-4355M 0.52 (20%)

AMD A6-5200 0.52 (20%)

AMD Athlon 5350 0.52 (20%)

AMD A8-3520M 0.51 (20%)

Intel Pentium J3710 0.51 (20%)

Intel Pentium D1508 0.51 (20%)

Intel Pentium N3710 0.5 (19%)

Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

AMD A6-3410MX 2.02 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X2 511 2.02 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X2 565 2.02 (4%)

AMD A8-3520M 2.01 (4%)

AMD A6-6310 2.01 (4%)

AMD Athlon II X2 370K 2 (4%)

AMD A10-4657M 2 (4%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

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AMD A4-6300 2305 (3%)

Intel Pentium J3710 2299 (3%)

AMD A8-3530MX 2286 (3%)

AMD A8-3520M 2281 (3%)

AMD A6-3430MX 2277 (3%)

Intel Celeron 2950M 2274 (3%)

Intel Celeron N4100 2270 (3%)