Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 vs AMD Athlon II X2 245

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

818 points

3% slightly better overall score

788 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1767 points

3% slightly better gaming score

1715 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

586 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

563 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

541 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.18 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

5.65 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

615 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

518 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

373 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

300 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

999th of 1,089

1,008th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

Core 2 Duo E8400 vs Athlon II X2 245 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8400 is faster than the Athlon II X2 245. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 245 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X2 245. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon II X2 245

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 Core 2 Duo E8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.