Athlon II X2 250 and Phenom II X2 550 BE review

Multimedia Benchmarks

Our benchmarks are quite self-explanatory. Beside the usual benchmarks we included the Far Cry 2 Bench, which should show only the benefit of a faster CPU. The Athlon II X2 is placed against the E7 series CPU, but in most cases, Intel is behind.

3DMark 2003 run at 1600×1200, 3DMark 2006 used defaults. As you can see, more CPU muscle doesn’t really help. AMD has positioned the triple-cores against Intel’s dual-core offerings, and as you can see in FarCry2 the third core does help to keep Intel in check, even when this game is clearly not optimized for AMD.

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