AMD Athlon II X3 450 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E6420

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X3 450 and Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. 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 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 3 vs 2
• Around 50% higher clock speed: 3.2 GHz vs 2.13 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 65 nm
• 6x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• Around 66% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1301 vs 785
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1847 vs 760
• Around 26% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 372 vs 296
• Around 74% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 941 vs 541

Reasons to consider the Intel Core 2 Duo E6420

• 2.7x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X3 450
CPU 2: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1301 785
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1847 760
Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	372 296
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	941 541

Compare specifications (specs)