AMD Athlon II X2 250 vs Intel Pentium III 1400

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X2 250 and Intel Pentium III 1400 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. 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 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 2 vs 1
• Around 114% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 1.4 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 130 nm
• 32x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 8x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• 4.4x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1198 vs 272
• 6x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1165 vs 193

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium III 1400

• 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 31.2 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X2 250
CPU 2: Intel Pentium III 1400

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1198 272
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1165 193

Compare specifications (specs)