Athlon 64 X2 4200+: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Athlon 64 X2 4200+ sales on December 2006 at a recommended price of $309. Based on a Manchester architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 90 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2200 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket 939 processor with a TDP of 89 Watt.

Primary details

Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameManchester (2005−2006)
Release dateDecember 2006 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$309of 17,906 (tray) (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Boost clock speed2.2 GHzof 50 MHz (i486DX-50)
L1 cache256Kof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512 KBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography90 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size220 mm2
Number of transistors154 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 X2 4200+ compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
Socket939
Power consumption (TDP)89 Wattof 3400 ‑ 4000 (Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus X1P-66-100)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon 64 X2 4200+. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 731

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 164

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 278

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon 64 X2 4200+, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon 64 X2 4200+ in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1219 configurations using Athlon 64 X2 4200+ in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.7% (8/1219)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.08% (1/1219)
RX 6700 Radeon RX 6700
0.08% (1/1219)
GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
0.08% (1/1219)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.08% (1/1219)
RX 5700 XT Radeon RX 5700 XT
0.08% (1/1219)
GTX 980 GeForce GTX 980
0.08% (1/1219)

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