AMD Athlon II X4 740

The AMD Athlon II X4 740 operates with:

CPU Cores 4.

CPU Threads: 4.

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

Turbo: 3.70 GHz base 3.70 GHz all cores.

TDP: 65 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: FM2.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 1 memory channels to support DDR3-1866 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Trinity Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 32 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q4/2012.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

AMD Athlon II X4 740

Family:

AMD Athlon II

CPU group:

AMD Athlon II (Trinity)

Predecessor:

Segment:

Desktop / Server

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

3.20 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

3.70 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Yes

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

DDR3-1866

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

DDR3-1866

GPU name:

no iGPU

GPU frequency:

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

32 nm

Release date:

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Trinity

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q4/2012

Socket:

FM2

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

65 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

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Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

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Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)

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Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)

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

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

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