AMD Phenom II X3 705e vs AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

Comparative analysis of AMD Phenom II X3 705e and AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom II X3 705e

• CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 3 vs 2
• Around 25% higher clock speed: 2.5 GHz vs 2 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 90 nm
• 3x 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 37% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 89 Watt
• Around 49% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 962 vs 646
• Around 28% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 1222 vs 958

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Phenom II X3 705e
CPU 2: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	962 646
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1222 958

Compare specifications (specs)