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Athlon II X2 280

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Release date ≈ Q4 2014.

Average Bench: 45.9% (909th of 1442)

Based on 516 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00100F63 Model: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 280 Processor
Poor: 32%Average: 45.9% Great: 52%
Gaming
Gaming 46%
Yacht
Desktop
Desktop 53%
Yacht
Workstation
Workstation 31%
Sail boat

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Below average average bench

The AMD Athlon II X2 280 averaged 54.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Memory Latency 75.9Pts
Avg. Single Core Speed 49.8Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Athlon II X2 280 is 20.4%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Athlon II X2 280 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Multi Core Speed 97.8Pts
Avg. Octa Core Speed 97.5Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 516 samples)
Rank 90945.9%
Min Avg Max
51.9 Memory 75.9 86.6
34.3 1-Core 49.8 57.2
52.3 2-Core 94.3 111
47.3% 73.3 Pts
Min Avg Max
61.3 4-Core 95.8 111
67.4 8-Core 97.5 112
12.9% 96.7 Pts
Min Avg Max
64.7 64-Core 97.8 113
6.1% 97.8 Pts
User Benchmarks BenchNormalHeavyServer
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AM3, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
47.6% Average
Memory 83.9
1-Core 48
2-Core 66
46% 66 Pts
4-Core 70.4
8-Core 69.6
9% 70 Pts
64-Core 69.5
4% 69.5 Pts
AM3, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
47.1% Average
Memory 83.5
1-Core 46.3
2-Core 65.3
46% 65 Pts
4-Core 65.1
8-Core 73.6
9% 69.3 Pts
64-Core 70.3
4% 70.3 Pts
AM3R2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
45.8% Average
Memory 80.4
1-Core 50.2
2-Core 69
46% 66.5 Pts
4-Core 69.1
8-Core 70.1
9% 69.6 Pts
64-Core 70.8
4% 70.8 Pts
CPU1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
44.5% Average
Memory 74.8
1-Core 46.2
2-Core 77.8
44% 66.3 Pts
4-Core 86.1
8-Core 86.9
12% 86.5 Pts
64-Core 87.4
5% 87.4 Pts
CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
41.6% Average
Memory 72.6
1-Core 46.1
2-Core 58.4
41% 59 Pts
4-Core 64.9
8-Core 66.5
9% 65.7 Pts
64-Core 61
4% 61 Pts
Socket AM2 , 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
40.2% Average
Memory 70.1
1-Core 40
2-Core 55.7
39% 55.3 Pts
4-Core 63.2
8-Core 64.3
8% 63.8 Pts
64-Core 61.6
4% 61.6 Pts
CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
40.1% Average
Memory 67.8
1-Core 45.9
2-Core 75.7
42% 63.1 Pts
4-Core 74.1
8-Core 79.4
10% 76.8 Pts
64-Core 82
5% 82 Pts
Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
38.2% Below average
Memory 65.3
1-Core 46.4
2-Core 65
40% 58.9 Pts
4-Core 66.9
8-Core 68.6
9% 67.8 Pts
64-Core 59.1
4% 59.1 Pts
CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg)
22.6% Poor
Memory 37.7
1-Core 23.9
2-Core 38.1
22% 33.2 Pts
4-Core 41.5
8-Core 61.6
6% 51.5 Pts
64-Core 10.8
1% 10.8 Pts
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 67,768,882 CPUs tested

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Gaming
Gaming 18%
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Desktop
Desktop 60%
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Workstation
Workstation 14%
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Motherboard: Asrock 960GM/U3S3 FX - $131

CPU
Athlon II X2 280AMDBench 46%, 516 samples1x
GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples12x
GTX 650-TiNvidia  $152Bench 14%, 36,698 samples4x
R9 270XAMD  $199Bench 27%, 77,943 samples4x
SSD
Burst 120GBPatriotBench 66%, 15,567 samples4x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung  $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples4x
VERTEX3 60GBOCZBench 60%, 3,574 samples2x
RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples5x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples3x
BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 8GBUnknownBench 38%, 2,343 samples3x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 118% - Outstanding Total price: $190

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Excellent

5 years ago.

Great CPU, clocked @ an impressive 3.6 GHz, efficient power consumption, decent single core speed, great for demanding single/double threaded tasks. Runs Windows 10 with ease. Affordable during its purchase and during its usage. Unless you have a GTX/Vega and over 6GB of RAM, it's not this CPU that's going to be the bottleneck. A major improvement from Intel's Core 2 Duo E6400 (which is still a fine CPU). In other words, old but gold and still competitive for most tasks.

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