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Phenom II X2 550BE and Athlon II X2 250
Peter G.
June 1, 2009 9:00 PM ET in Tech
Test Results
Sisoft Sandra 2009 SP2
Sisoft Sandra is a great synthetic benchmark suite that can evaluate numerous aspects of a system; we used the CPU Arithmetic, Cryptography, Memory Bandwidth and Memory Latency tests for ours.
We’re using version 15.72, which is friendly to processors containing two, three or four cores.
The AMD dual cores aren’t going to tackle the big multi-core chips in this benchmark but they stack up nicely against the Core 2 Duo E8400. While it’s easy to snub these results, keep in mind that the E8400 is more expensive and positioned in a higher market space. With that perspective, we see that AMD’s new dual cores compete well outside of their price bracket and should give Big Blue’s E6000 and E7000-series CPUs a run for their money.
Sandra's crypto test paints a similar picture.
AMD’s dualies turn pretty impressive scores for such inexpensive chips, and they easily surpass both older Phenom IIs and Intel’s Core 2 series. With a bump in clock speed, the Phenom II X2 550 and Athlon II X2 250 would join the ranks of the fastest Phenom IIs in this test.
AMD's new chips offer predictable latency.
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