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Athlon X2 240

Athlon X2 240
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Effective Speed -150%Effective Speed -150%Average Score -594%Memory -17%, 1-Core -387%, 2-Core -397%, 4-Core -815%, 8-Core -1,354%Overclocked Score -555%1-Core -347%, 2-Core -350%, 4-Core -770%, 8-Core -1,296%, Memory -14%Value & Sentiment User Rating -89%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves -1,364%64-Core -1,867%, 64-Core -1,956%, Age -268%

Average Bench: 41.1% (1057^th of 1468)

Based on 291 user benchmarks. Device: 178BFBFF00100F62 Model: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 240 Processor

Poor: 28%Average: 41.1% Great: 46%

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 46%

Yacht

Workstation 27%

Raft

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Below average average bench

The AMD Athlon X2 240 averaged 58.9% 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 70.2Pts

Avg. Single Core Speed 37.2Pts

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Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Athlon X2 240 is just 18.3%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Athlon X2 240 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Multi Core Speed 75.1Pts

Avg. Octa Core Speed 74Pts

Average Bench

(Based on 291 samples)

Rank 105741.1%

Min	Avg	Max
48.8	Memory 70.2	79.9
25.7	1-Core 37.2	42.6
33	2-Core 70.7	83.5
39.8% 59.4 Pts

Min	Avg	Max
42.3	4-Core 72.4	83.4
50.8	8-Core 74	83.2
9.75% 73.2 Pts

Min	Avg	Max
49.6	64-Core 75.1	83.7
4.6% 75.1 Pts

User Benchmarks

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The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

USA-User, 2 years ago.Athlon X2 240,

Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads

Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg)

46.3% Average

Memory 79.3

1-Core 42.8

2-Core 77.6

45% 66.6 Pts

4-Core 81.2

8-Core 82.5

11% 81.8 Pts

64-Core 81.1

5% 81.1 Pts

TUR-User, 2 years ago.Athlon X2 240,

Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads

Base clock 2.8 GHz

39.8% Below average

Memory 71.5

1-Core 29

2-Core 59.4

37% 53.3 Pts

4-Core 47.6

8-Core 79.9

8% 63.8 Pts

64-Core 73.9

5% 73.9 Pts

TUR-User, 2 years ago.Athlon X2 240,

Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads

Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.1 GHz (avg)

38.7% Below average

Memory 73.1

1-Core 22.7

2-Core 12.1

31% 36 Pts

4-Core 27.1

8-Core 53.7

5% 40.4 Pts

64-Core 60.1

4% 60.1 Pts

ARG-User, 17 months ago.Athlon X2 240,

CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads

Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg)

38.1% Below average

Memory 65.6

1-Core 40.4

2-Core 56.5

37% 54.2 Pts

4-Core 64.5

8-Core 66.2

9% 65.3 Pts

64-Core 66.4

4% 66.4 Pts

CZE-User, 12 months ago.Athlon X2 240,

Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads

Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg)

28.8% Poor

Memory 51.9

1-Core 11.5

2-Core 23.9

23% 29.1 Pts

4-Core 35.9

8-Core 34.5

5% 35.2 Pts

64-Core 12.7

1% 12.7 Pts

NPL-User, 9 months ago.Athlon X2 240,

Socket AM2 , 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads

Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg)

27.8% Poor

Memory 47.3

1-Core 27.9

2-Core 45.6

27% 40.3 Pts

4-Core 49.8

8-Core 50.9

7% 50.3 Pts

64-Core 50.2

3% 50.2 Pts

RUS-User, 14 months ago.Athlon X2 240,

Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads

Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.8 GHz (avg)

26.1% Poor

Memory 44.2

1-Core 35.7

2-Core 48.5

28% 42.8 Pts

4-Core 48.7

8-Core 49.1

6% 48.9 Pts

64-Core 44.1

3% 44.1 Pts

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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 40%

Jet ski

Workstation 2%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P

CPU
Athlon X2 240AMDBench 41%, 291 samples	8x

GPU
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430NvidiaBench 0%, 4,836 samples	13x
GeForce 9500 GTNvidiaBench 2%, 27,834 samples	6x
Radeon HD 5450AMDBench 1%, 66,079 samples	6x

SSD
12 8GB SSD3Bench 56%, 10 samples	6x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	2x
SU 630 480GBAdataBench 64%, 98 samples	2x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	37x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	21x
1x2GBUnknownBench 17%, 99,586 samples	6x

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