Compare AMD A6-3400M Vs Intel Core i3-2310M

It is easy to be mislead by clock speed to conclude the a lower clock speed means slower processor. AMD’s newest fusion processor – the A6-3400M is clocked just at 1.4 GHz and you may be tempted to conclude that it is slower than the Intel’s core i3-2310M, clocked at 2.1 GHz.


There are few things that work in favor of AMD’s A6-3400M. First – it is a 4 core processor which will give you a great performance in the multi threaded environment.

Secondly the turbo boost feature in the A6-3400M can raise the frequency upto 2.3 GHz based upon demand. This help in improving the performance processes that require processing power in short period of time. In this way, it is more similar to the Intel’s core i3 processors. In overall A6-3400M is better that the Intel’s core i3-2310M ( though it will be inferior to most of the Intel’s core i5 series processors in the Sandy Bridge line)

Table : AMD A6-3400M Vs Core i3-2310M Feature Differences

Feature	AMD A6-3400M	Core i3-2310M
Core Frequency	1.4 Ghz	2.10 GHz
No. Of Cores	4	2 (4 Hyperthreads)
Cache Organization	4 MB L2 cache	3 MB L3 Smart Cache
Turbo Frequency	2.3 Ghz	No Turbo
TDP Rating	35	35 Watts
64 Bit Support	Y	Y
Lithography	32nm	32 nm
Integrated Memory Controller	DDR3L-1333	DDR3-1333
Integrated Graphics	Yes, Radeon HD 6480G	Yes, Base 650 MHz, Turbo 1.10 GHz

Table : AMD A6-3400M Vs Core i3-2310M Benchmarking Comparison

Benchmarks	AMD A6-3400M	Core i3-2310M
PassMark Score	3563	2607
Super Pi 2M (Lower in better)	35 Seconds	42 seconds
3D Mark 06 CPU	2136	2530
Windows 7 Experience Score	6.6	6.4

Some more details of AMD A6-3400M

The AMD A6-3400M is an entry level quad-core processor for notebooks. This is code named as Llano and released on June 15th of 2011. This processor comes under AMD A-Series. The base frequency of the processor is 1.4GHz only. Its Turbo Boost technology can over clock it up to 2.3 GHz, but this over clocking completely depends on temperature conditions and number of cores usage. This processor comes with integrated Radeon HD 6520G Graphics card and integrated memory controller that can support for DDR3 (L)- 1333 memory and a PCle 2.0 controller. The TD of this processor is 35 Watt.

Some more details of Core i3-2310M

The Core i3-2310M is the second generation Intel Core i3 processor improving significantly upon the architecture that evolved from Arrandale. Although turbo boost is not available in the core i3-2310M ( The newer turbo 2.0 technology, that increases the time for which processor can be in the boosted state, is available only on the second generation core i5 and i7 processors), the processor still shows significant perdormance improvement over similarly clocked 1st generation core i3 processor. The more significant improvement has been in the area of integrated graphics unit.

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