AMD Athlon II X2 250 vs AMD Athlon XP 2600+

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X2 250 and AMD Athlon XP 2600+ processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score, 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X2 250

• CPU is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 2 vs 1
• Around 56% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 1.92 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 130 nm
• 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 68 Watt
• 3.2x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1197 vs 380
• 4.8x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1160 vs 242

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X2 250
CPU 2: AMD Athlon XP 2600+

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1197 380
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1160 242

Compare specifications (specs)