AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE vs AMD Athlon XP 2200+

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE and AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE

• CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 2 vs 1
• Around 33% higher clock speed: 2.4 GHz vs 1.8 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 90 nm vs 130 nm
• 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 835 vs 335
• 3.4x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 720 vs 214

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon XP 2200+

• Around 3% lower typical power consumption: 63 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ EE
CPU 2: AMD Athlon XP 2200+

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	835 335
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	720 214

Compare specifications (specs)