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Review: AMD brings 45nm process and Phenom to bear on dual-core CPUs

by Tarinder Sandhu on 2 June 2009, 00:00 3.6

Tags: AMD Athlon II X2 250, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Bandwidth, latency, and HEXUS.PiFast

SiSoft Sandra XII Lite SP2c Win64 memory bandwidth float buffered
AMD Athlon X2 7750 BEAMD Athlon X2 7850 BEIntel Pentium Dual-Core E5200AMD Athlon X2 6000+AMD Athlon II X2 250
7.837.74.588.178.92


Sciencemark 2 memory latency
AMD Athlon X2 7750 BEAMD Athlon X2 7850 BEIntel Pentium Dual-Core E5200AMD Athlon X2 6000+AMD Athlon II X2 250
59.8760.2357.246.5151.76


HEXUS.PiFast - calculation to 10m places
AMD Athlon X2 7750 BEAMD Athlon X2 7850 BEIntel Pentium Dual-Core E5200AMD Athlon X2 6000+AMD Athlon II X2 250
43.442.3339.6741.0138.94


The Athlon II X2 250 is a touch faster than the higher-clocked (3.1GHz) Athlon 64 X2 6000+ in the HEXUS.PiFast test, but all processors produce times in close proximity of one another.