AMD Athlon II X3 435 & Athlon II X2 240e Processor Review

Testing:

The first part of our testing will be the system specific benchmarks.

Let's get started with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:

• Resolution: 2750x2048
• Quality: 500
• Limit Memory use: 512MB

The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.

Lower is Better

WinRAR is a tool to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will test the time needed to compress 100MB and 500MB files. Time will be measured in seconds. Additionally, I will use the built in benchmark as a comparison.

ZIP:

Lower is Better

RAR:

Lower is Better

In Apophysis, which is based on clock speed, the X3 435 comes in right behind the Athlon II X4 and the i5, and the X2 comes in next above the Athlon II Quad Core with the lower clock speed. For WinRAR, the Triple Core comes in behind the Quad Cores, and the Dual Core follows suit.