AMD Phenom II X2 550 vs Intel Pentium E6500

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM3 Intel Socket 775
Process size 45 nm 45 nm
Transistors 758 million 228 million
Die size 258 mm² 82 mm²
Package µPGA FC-LGA8
Foundry Intel

Performance

Frequency 3.1 GHz 2.933 GHz
Turbo clock
Base clock 200 MHz 266 MHz
Multiplier 15.5x 11.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.4 V 1.3625 V
TDP 80 W 65 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Desktop
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Nov 4th, 2009 Aug 9th, 2009
Codename Callisto Wolfdale
Generation Phenom II X2 Pentium Dual-Core
Part HDX550WFK2DGMHDX550WFGMBOX SLGUH
Memory support DDR3 Dual-channel DDR1, DDR2, DDR3 Dual-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2

Cores

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

Cache

Cache L1 128K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 2MB (shared)
Cache L3 6MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

3DNow! Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
EIST Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
NX bit Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes

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