AMD Athlon II X2 220 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8200

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

721 points
725 points
0.55% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1593 points
1% slightly better gaming score
1576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

510 points
518 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

489 points
497 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

611 points
677 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

329 points
385 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

500 points
524 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

285 points
315 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
Identical
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.81 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
2.66 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,025th of 1,089
1,024th of 1,089

Family

The product line

-
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2008 February

Athlon II X2 220 vs Core 2 Duo E8200 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Duo E8200 performs better than the Athlon II X2 220. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X2 220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8200. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8200 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Athlon II X2 220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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