AMD Athlon II X2 370K vs Intel Pentium J2900

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AMD Athlon II X2 370K CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Pentium J2900
AMD Athlon II X2 370K Intel Pentium J2900

CPU comparison

AMD Athlon II X2 370K or Intel Pentium J2900 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The AMD Athlon II X2 370K has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.20 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 1 memory channels. The AMD Athlon II X2 370K was released in Q2/2013.

The Intel Pentium J2900 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.67 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium J2900 was released in Q4/2013.
AMD Athlon II (52) Family Intel Pentium (150)
AMD Athlon II X2 (Richland) (1) CPU group Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 (6)
4 Generation 6
Richland Architecture Bay Trail
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Athlon II X2 370K has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 2 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon II X2 370K is 4.00 GHz (4.20 GHz) while the Intel Pentium J2900 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium J2900 is at 2.41 GHz (2.67 GHz).

AMD Athlon II X2 370K Characteristic Intel Pentium J2900
2 Cores 4
2 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
Yes Overclocking ? No
4.00 GHz Frequency 2.41 GHz
4.20 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 2.67 GHz
4.20 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 2.67 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AMD Athlon II X2 370K Characteristic Intel Pentium J2900
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The AMD Athlon II X2 370K or Intel Pentium J2900 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

no iGPU GPU Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)
GPU frequency 0.69 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 0.90 GHz
-- GPU Generation 7
Technology 22 nm
Max. displays 2
-- Compute units 4
-- Shader 32
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
-- DirectX Version 11.2

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 No
No Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode

Memory & PCIe

The AMD Athlon II X2 370K can use up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 14.9 GB/s. The Intel Pentium J2900 supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 21.3 GB/s.

AMD Athlon II X2 370K Characteristic Intel Pentium J2900
DDR3-1866 Memory DDR3-1333
Max. Memory 8 GB
1 (Single Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
14.9 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 21.3 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
1.00 MB L3 Cache 2.00 MB
-- PCIe version 2.0
-- PCIe lanes 4
-- PCIe Bandwidth 2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the AMD Athlon II X2 370K is 65 W, while the Intel Pentium J2900 has a TDP of 10 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

AMD Athlon II X2 370K Characteristic Intel Pentium J2900
65 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 10 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 105 °C

Technical details

The AMD Athlon II X2 370K is manufactured in 32 nm and has 1.00 MB cache. The Intel Pentium J2900 is manufactured in 22 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.

AMD Athlon II X2 370K Characteristic Intel Pentium J2900
32 nm Technology 22 nm
Unknown Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2
FM2 Socket BGA 1170
AMD-V Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT
No AES-NI No
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2013 Release date Q4/2013
45 $ Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
AMD Athlon II X2 370K (100%)
Intel Pentium J2900 (49%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
AMD Athlon II X2 370K (96%)
Intel Pentium J2900 (91%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
2C 2T @ 4.20 GHz
1505 (100%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
1240 (82%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
2C 2T @ 4.20 GHz
90 (100%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
44 (49%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
2C 2T @ 4.20 GHz
147 (91%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
161 (100%)

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 Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
2C 2T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
240 (100%)

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.
AMD Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
2C 2T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
765 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
2C 2T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
195 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
2C 2T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
4C 4T @ 2.67 GHz
576 (100%)

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 Athlon II X2 370K AMD Athlon II X2 370K
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium J2900 Intel Pentium J2900
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.90 GHz
57 (100%)

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