The Athlon X4 840 sits between Athlon X4 845 and A8-5500. It is 0% lower than the Athlon X4 845 while being 0.6% higher than the A8-5500. The Athlon X4 840 takes a comfortable 28.5% lead over the Core i3-4370. In this benchmark, the Athlon X4 840 has an impressive performance, which is way ahead of the last generation Athlon X4 740 by 1.1%. Again, the Athlon X4 740 tumbles down the chart, falling behind its Steamroller-based successor. That's a ~1.1% generational speed-up in this title. The Athlon X4 740 clearly shows how significantly the entry-level Richland-based CPUs fall behind the Steamroller models. The Athlon X4 840's performance earns it the 42nd place. AMD's Athlon X4 840 notches a small win over the Athlon X4 740, but opens up an impressive lead over the stock Core i3-4370. Overall, the Athlon X4 840 is an average performer with its 4-cores and 4-threads in this benchmark.
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The return of Phenom II X4 800 marks AMD's yet another push to secure its dominance in the budget market, and its first representative, the Phenom II X4 840 has all of the features to continue the legacy of legendary Athlon II X4 620 - the first $100 quad processor. Clocked at high 3.20 GHz, and priced at $102, Phenom II X4 840 is going to compete nicely in this segment.
We are going to compare the new Phenom II X4 840 (3.2 GHz) to the Athlon II X4 635 (2.9 GHz), since both are in the same price range. In the tables below you can see a brief comparison between the ...
The AMD Athlon X4 840 Processor retails at RM 270, a very affordable processor and coupled with a motherboard it costs around RM 500 which is pretty much the cheapest quad-core setup you can get. That seems favorable, until you consider the fact that Intel’s dual-core setup costs similar and in some tasks could actually perform faster.
In looking at the market, the X4 840 seems like a great value 4-core solution with 100 MHz higher clock speed and priced $17 less than the Athlon II X4 645. For a 2% increase in price, or $2 more than the Athlon II X4 640, the X4 840 offers a solid 200 MHz boost, or 6% increase in clock speed.