AMD Opteron 2210 X2 compare AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ CPU

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CPU Core Details

CPU Codename	Santa Rosa	Brisbane
MoBo Socket	Socket F	Socket AM2
Notebook CPU	no	no
Release Date	15 Aug 2006	05 Dec 2006
CPU Link	GD Link	GD Link
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CPU Technical Specifications

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CPU Cores	2	2
CPU Threads	-	2
Clock Speed	1.8 GHz	2.7 GHz
Turbo Frequency	-	-
System Bus	-	800 MHz
Max TDP	95 W	65 W
Lithography	90 nm	65 nm
Bit Width	-	64 Bit
Max Temperature	-	72°C
Virtualization Technology	no	no

CPU Cache and Memory

L1 Cache Size	256 KB	256 KB
L2 Cache Size	2048 KB	1024 KB
L2 Cache Speed	-	-
L3 Cache Size	-	-
Memory Types
Memory Channels	-	2
ECC Memory Support	no	no

CPU Graphics

Integrated Graphics	no	no
Base GPU Frequency	-	-
Max GPU Frequency	-	-
DirectX	-	-
Displays Supported	-	-

CPU Mini Review

Mini Review	For Socket F and Socket AM2 Opterons, each chip has a four-digit model number, in the form Opteron XZYY. For all Opterons, the first digit (the X) specifies the number of CPUs on the target machine: 1 - Designed for uniprocessor systems 2 - Designed for dual-processor systems 8 - Designed for systems with 4 or 8 processors For Socket F and Socket AM2 Opterons, the second digit (the Z) represents the processor generation. Presently, only 2 (dual-core), DDR2, 3 (quad-core) and 4 (six-core) are used. For all Opterons, the last two digits in the model number (the YY) indicate the clock frequency of a CPU, a higher number indicating a higher clock frequency. This speed indication is comparable to processors of the same generation if they have the same amount of cores, single-cores and dual-cores have different indications despite sometimes having the same clock frequency. The suffix HE or EE indicates a high-efficiency/energy-efficiency model having a lower TDP than a standard Opteron. The suffix SE indicates a top-of-the-line model having a higher TDP than a standard Opteron.	Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ is a middle-class Processor based on the 65nm K8 micro-architecture. It offers 2 Physical Cores (2 Logical), clocked at 2.7GHz and 2MB of L2 Cache. Among its many features, Virtualization is activated. The processor DOES NOT integrated any graphics. and has a rated board TDP of 65W. Its performance is below the average and so most demanding games will not run optimally.

Gaming Performance Comparison

In terms of overall gaming performance, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ is very slightly better than the AMD Opteron 2210 X2 when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.

Both the Opteron 2210 X2 and the Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ were released at the same time, so are likely to be quite similar.

{ The Opteron 2210 X2 and the Athlon 64 X2 both have 2 cores, and so are quite likely to struggle with the latest games, or at least bottleneck high-end graphics cards when running them. With a decent accompanying GPU, theOpteron 2210 X2 and the Athlon 64 X2 may still be able to run slightly older games fairly effectively.

More important for gaming than the number of cores and threads is the clock rate. Problematically, unless the two CPUs are from the same family, this can only serve as a general guide and nothing like an exact comparison, because the clock cycles per instruction (CPI) will vary so much.

The Opteron 2210 X2 and Athlon 64 X2 are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Athlon 64 X2 has a 0.9 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the is superior.

Aside from the clock rate, the next-most important CPU features for PC game performance are L2 and L3 cache size. Faster than RAM, the more cache available, the more data that can be stored for lightning-fast retrieval. L1 Cache is not usually an issue anymore for gaming, with most high-end CPUs eking out about the same L1 performance, and L2 is more important than L3 - but L3 is still important if you want to reach the highest levels of performance. Bear in mind that although it is better to have a larger cache, the larger it is, the higher the latency, so a balance has to be struck.

The Opteron 2210 X2 has a 1024 KB bigger L2 cache than the Athlon 64 X2, but neither of the CPUs have L3 caches, so the Opteron 2210 X2 wins out in this area with its larger L2 cache.

The maximum Thermal Design Power is the power in Watts that the CPU will consume in the worst case scenario. The lithography is the semiconductor manufacturing technology being used to create the CPU - the smaller this is, the more transistors that can be fit into the CPU, and the closer the connections. For both the lithography and the TDP, it is the lower the better, because a lower number means a lower amount of power is necessary to run the CPU, and consequently a lower amount of heat is produced.