AMD Athlon II X4 651 vs AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon II X4 651 and AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 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 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
• Around 43% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 2.1 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 65 nm
• 2x 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 83% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1287 vs 705
• 4.2x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 2500 vs 591

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350

• 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon II X4 651
CPU 2: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1287 705
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2500 591

Compare specifications (specs)