AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+: specs and benchmarks

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Year of release 2006
Performance 0.61

Summary

AMD started AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ sales on May 2006. This is a Windsor architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 90 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2600 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM2 processor with a TDP of 89 Watt.

It provides poor benchmark performance at

0.61%

of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.

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General info

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance rating2515
Value for money0.99
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameWindsor (2006−2009)
Release dateMay 2006 (16 years old)
Current price$53 of 16241 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)
Value for money

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Technical specs

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 speed2.6 GHzof 6 (Core i9-13900KS)
L1 cache256 KBof 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache512 KBof 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache0 KBof 786432 (EPYC 7773X)
Chip lithography90 nmof 4 (Ryzen 7 7840HS)
Die size220 mm2
Number of transistors154 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 9 7945HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 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 8160M)
SocketAM2
Thermal design power (TDP)89 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon 64 X2 5000+. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 0.61
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  • GeekBench 5 Single-Core
  • GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

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.

Benchmark coverage: 67%

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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.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

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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.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

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Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Athlon 64 X2 5000+ performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Athlon 64 X2 5000+ from Intel is Core 2 Duo E4600, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our rating.

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Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon 64 X2 5000+, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1329 configurations based on Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in our database.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.2% (3/1329)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.08% (1/1329)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.4% (5/1329)
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.08% (1/1329)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070
0.08% (1/1329)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
0.2% (2/1329)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.2% (2/1329)
AMD Radeon RX 6700 Radeon RX 6700
0.08% (1/1329)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
0.08% (1/1329)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.08% (1/1329)

User rating

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