AMD Athlon II X3 450 vs AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X3 450 and AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 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 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 3 vs 2
• Around 23% higher clock speed: 3.2 GHz vs 2.6 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 90 nm
• Around 50% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 3x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 62% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1301 vs 802
• Around 23% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1847 vs 1507
• Around 65% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 372 vs 225
• 2.2x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 941 vs 427

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+

• Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 89 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X3 450
CPU 2: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1301 802
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1847 1507
Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	372 225
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	941 427

Compare specifications (specs)