AMD Athlon II X3 450 vs AMD Athlon 64 FX-57

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X3 450 and AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 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, 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 - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X3 450

• CPU is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 3 vs 1
• Around 14% higher clock speed: 3.2 GHz vs 2.8 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 90 nm
• 3x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• Around 50% more L2 cache; more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 104 Watt
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1301 vs 552
• 3.6x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1847 vs 517

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X3 450
CPU 2: AMD Athlon 64 FX-57

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1301 552
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1847 517

Compare specifications (specs)