AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 vs AMD Athlon XP 3100+

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 and AMD Athlon XP 3100+ processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400

• CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 2 vs 1
• Around 5% higher clock speed: 2.3 GHz vs 2.2 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 65 nm vs 130 nm
• 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 51% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 68 Watt
• Around 74% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 749 vs 431
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 674 vs 282

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400
CPU 2: AMD Athlon XP 3100+

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	749 431
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	674 282

Compare specifications (specs)