Phenom X3 8550: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Phenom X3 8550 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.72% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Phenom X3 8550 sales on April 2008 at a recommended price of $170. This is a Toliman architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 3 cores and 3 threads, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2200 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM2+ processor with a TDP of 95 Watt.
Primary details
Phenom X3 8550 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2680 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 2.13 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Power efficiency | 0.72 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Toliman (2008) | |
| Release date | April 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $170 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
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 cores | 3 (Tri-Core) | |
| Threads | 3 | |
| Boost clock speed | 2.2 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 2 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 285 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 450 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on Phenom X3 8550 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | AM2+ | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | of 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H) |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Phenom X3 8550. 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.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Phenom X3 8550 is Core 2 Duo E6850, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 10 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Phenom X3 8550, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Phenom X3 8550 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 52 configurations using Phenom X3 8550 in our database.
