Opteron 252: specs and benchmarks

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Opteron 252
2005
1 core / 1 thread, 92 Watt
0.48

Opteron 252 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.48% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Opteron 252 sales on February 2005 at a recommended price of $63. This is a Troy architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, 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 940 processor with a TDP of 92 Watt.

Primary details

Opteron 252 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2915
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentServer
Power efficiency0.49of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameTroy (2005)
Release dateFebruary 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$63of 17,906 (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 cores1 (Single-Core)
Threads1
Boost clock speed2.6 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography90 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Number of transistors106 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Opteron 252 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 configuration2of 8 (Opteron 842)
Socket940
Power consumption (TDP)92 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Opteron 252. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark 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.

Opteron 252 0.48

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.

Opteron 252 760

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Opteron 252's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon E5503 106.25
Xeon 5130 104.17
Xeon 5120 100
Opteron 252 100
Opteron 250 85.42
Opteron 246 83.33
Xeon 3.06 70.83

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Opteron 252 is Xeon 5120, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Opteron 252:

Xeon E5503 106.25
Xeon 5130 104.17
Xeon 5120 100
Opteron 252 100
Xeon 3.06 70.83
Xeon 3.20 62.5
Xeon 2.66 56.25

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Opteron 252, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Opteron 252 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1 configurations using Opteron 252 in our database.

FX 4500 Quadro FX 4500
100% (1/1)

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