Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

818 points
13% slightly better overall score
721 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1767 points
10% slightly better gaming score
1593 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

586 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
510 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

563 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
489 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

622 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
611 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

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

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

615 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
500 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

373 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
285 points

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

3 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
2.81 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,002nd of 1,092
1,028th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
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