AMD Athlon II X4 651 vs AMD Athlon II X2 215

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X4 651 and AMD Athlon II X2 215 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, 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 - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X4 651

• CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
• Around 11% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 2.7 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 45 nm
• 4x 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
• Around 26% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1287 vs 1023
• 2.6x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 2500 vs 973
• Around 21% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 396 vs 327
• 2.2x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 1335 vs 597

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X2 215

• Around 54% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X4 651
CPU 2: AMD Athlon II X2 215

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1287 1023
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2500 973
Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	396 327
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	1335 597

Compare specifications (specs)