AMD Athlon II X2 250 vs AMD Phenom X3 8400

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 AMD Socket AM2+
Process size 45 nm 65 nm
Transistors 410 million 450 million
Die size 117 mm² 285 mm²
Package µPGA µPGA

Performance

Frequency 3 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 200 MHz 200 MHz
Multiplier 15.0x 10.5x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.25 V 1.25 V
TDP 65 W 95 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Jun 2nd, 2009 Mar 27th, 2008
Codename Regor Toliman
Generation Athlon II X2 Phenom X3
Part ADX250OCK23GQ HD8400WCJ3BGD
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel unknown Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 2 3
Total Threads 2 3
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 256K 128K (per core)
Cache L2 2MB 512K (per core)
Cache L3 2MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes Yes
AMD-V Yes Yes
AMD64 Yes Yes
CnQ Yes
HT3.0 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes Yes

Notes

Notes Processor with the older B2 revision and TLB Bug.

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