AMD Phenom II X2 550 and Athlon II X2 250 Processors Review

Testing:

SiSoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful. For this benchmark, I will be running a broad spectrum of tests to gauge the performance of key functions of the CPUs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Processor Arithmetic

 

Multi-Core Efficiency

 

Memory Bandwidth

 

Memory Latency

 

Cache and Memory

 

File System

 

Physical Disks

 

Power Management Efficiency

 

Of the AMD dual cores, the Phenom II X2 and the Athlon II X2 were the strongest; however, they still fall behind the triple and quad cores. Compared to the Intel E7200, they scored the same or better.