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Intel Pentium B960 vs AMD A10-6790K

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 79 %
Intel Pentium B960
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD A10-6790K
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 40 %
Intel Pentium B960
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD A10-6790K
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium B960
2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz
413
AMD A10-6790K
4C / 4T · 4.30 GHz
522
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium B960
2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz
825
AMD A10-6790K
4C / 4T · 4.30 GHz
1,419
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Pentium B960
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
106
AMD A10-6790K
AMD Radeon HD 8670D
648

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At a glance

Wischen
Intel Pentium B960AMD A10-6790K
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)AMD A (112)
CPU groupIntel Pentium 900 (10)AMD A10-6000 (4)
ArchitectureSandy Bridge URichland (Piledriver)
Technology32 nm32 nm
SegmentNotebookDesktop
SocketPGA 988FM2
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Pentium B960AMD A10-6790K
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x 4x
Frequency: 2.20 GHz 4.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 4.30 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 4.30 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache2.00 MB4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Pentium B960AMD A10-6790K
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)AMD Radeon HD 8670D
GPU frequency0.65 - 1.10 GHz0.84 GHz
CUs / Shader6 / 486 / 384
Raytracing
Max. displays22
Max. GPU Memory2 GB2 GB
Technology32 nm32 nm
Release dateQ2/2011Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

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Intel Pentium B960AMD A10-6790K
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium B960AMD A10-6790K
MemoryDDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory16 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Pentium B960AMD A10-6790K
TDP35 W100 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.85 °C

Technical details

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Intel Pentium B960AMD A10-6790K
Chip designMonolithicUnknown
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
Release dateQ4/2011Q4/2013
Release price110 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium B960
Intel Pentium B960
2C / 2T · 2.20 GHz
AMD A10-6790K
AMD A10-6790K
4C / 4T · 4.10 - 4.30 GHz

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Intel Pentium B960
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