AMD Athlon II X2 250 vs Intel Pentium E6600

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Pentium E6600
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Games supported 53%

General info

Comparing Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking23892398
Place by popularityno data73
Value for money0.023.61
Market segmentDesktop processorDesktop processor
Architecture codenameWolfdale (2008−2010)Regor (2009−2013)
Release date17 January 2010 (13 years old)June 2009 (14 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$16$39
Current price$82 (5.1x MSRP)$43 (1.1x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed3.06 GHzno data
Boost clock speed0.07 GHz3 GHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)256 KB
L2 cache2 MB (shared)2 MB
L3 cache0 KB0 KB
Chip lithography45 nm45 nm
Die size82 mm2117 mm2
Maximum core temperature74 °Cno data
Number of transistors228 million410 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplier-no data
VID voltage range0.85V – 1.3625Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250 compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration11
SocketLGA775AM3
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+no data
Demand Based Switching-no data

Security technologies

Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250 are enumerated here.

VT-d-no data
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250. Depending on the motherboards, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250.

PCIe version2.0no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

Pentium E6600 0.87
+1.2%
Athlon II X2 250 0.86

Pentium E6600 outperforms Athlon II X2 250 by 1% in our combined benchmark results.


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: 68%

Pentium E6600 1100
+1.9%
Athlon II X2 250 1080

Pentium E6600 outperforms Athlon II X2 250 by 2% in Passmark.

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%

Pentium E6600 377
+5%
Athlon II X2 250 359

Pentium E6600 outperforms Athlon II X2 250 by 5% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

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%

Pentium E6600 658
Athlon II X2 250 659
+0.2%

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) no data 1.1 Mh/s

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 0.87 0.86
Cost $16 $39
Boost clock speed 3067 3000

We couldn't decide between Pentium E6600 and Athlon II X2 250. The differences in performance seem too small.


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