What is the difference between the Phenom II and the Athlon II ?
It looks like the Athlon is less expensive. I'm looking for a simple AMD Dual core, I dont need to overclock it etc.
Phenom II vrs Athlon II
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Re: Phenom II vrs Athlon II
the ONLY difference between an Athlon II and Phenom II at the same speed is L3 cache, where Deneb-based Phenom II's have 6MB L3 cache and Athlon II's have no L3 cache.
there are very few scenarios where the L3 cache would be even slightly noticeable. even in synthetic benchmarks you do not see a difference
there are very few scenarios where the L3 cache would be even slightly noticeable. even in synthetic benchmarks you do not see a difference
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Re: Phenom II vrs Athlon II
Thanks, good to know.
Re: Phenom II vrs Athlon II
Just curious, if that's the case, why do they put L3 cache on the CPU at all?skier wrote:the ONLY difference between an Athlon II and Phenom II at the same speed is L3 cache, where Deneb-based Phenom II's have 6MB L3 cache and Athlon II's have no L3 cache.
there are very few scenarios where the L3 cache would be even slightly noticeable. even in synthetic benchmarks you do not see a difference
Re: Phenom II vrs Athlon II
it does have its uses, primarily for workstations like for CAD or heavy photo/video editing and compressionshark wrote:Just curious, if that's the case, why do they put L3 cache on the CPU at all?skier wrote:the ONLY difference between an Athlon II and Phenom II at the same speed is L3 cache, where Deneb-based Phenom II's have 6MB L3 cache and Athlon II's have no L3 cache.
there are very few scenarios where the L3 cache would be even slightly noticeable. even in synthetic benchmarks you do not see a difference
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