AMD Phenom X4 9850 (125W) vs AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+

Comparative analysis of AMD Phenom X4 9850 (125W) and AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom X4 9850 (125W)

• CPU is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 65 nm vs 90 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 6% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 305 vs 288
• Around 94% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 995 vs 514

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+

• Around 20% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 2.5 GHz

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Phenom X4 9850 (125W)
CPU 2: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+

Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	305 288
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	995 514

Compare specifications (specs)