AMD Phenom II X2 550: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Phenom II X2 550 sales on November 2009 at a recommended price of $133. This is a Callisto architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3100 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM3 processor with a TDP of 80 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.75% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

Phenom II X2 550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2515
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money3.55
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameCallisto (2009−2010)
Release dateNovember 2009 (14 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$133of 305 (Core i7-870)
Current price$26 (0.2x MSRP)of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 speed3.1 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)of 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache6 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size258 mm2
Number of transistors758 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X2 550 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 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM3
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Phenom II X2 550's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Phenom II X2 550. 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.

Phenom II X2 550 0.75

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%

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Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Phenom II X2 550 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Phenom II X2 550 is Core 2 Duo E7600, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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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 Phenom II X2 550, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Phenom II X2 550 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1834 configurations based on Phenom II X2 550 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (11/1834)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.1% (2/1834)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (2/1834)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.2% (4/1834)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.1% (2/1834)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.4% (7/1834)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.05% (1/1834)
RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
0.1% (2/1834)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.05% (1/1834)
RX 6700 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.05% (1/1834)

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