AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Processor

The AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Desktop Processor is empowered with the AMD’S dual core technology that means this processor has two cores on a single chip. These cores can run multi threading programs at a much faster than a single core processor. Running multiple applications also does not slow down the system. Since two processor works together simultaneously running a multimedia application is very fast and photo editing and video editing tasks are much simplified.

The major advantage in having the Athlon X2 Dual-Core processor is that it consumes less power so the processor is energy efficient. This processor uses 45W, 65W, 89W, or 125W for its operations. These processors have 164 to 243 million transistors and the number of transistor differs based on the cache size. AMD Athlon family processors with HyperTransport technology can transfer data up to 8GB per second and the memory bandwidth is up to 12GB per second. It also features an integrated memory controller. It has also got the Enhanced Virus Protection technology that prevents certain viruses but the operating systems should support these features. These processors belong to AMD64 family so it can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. These processors support the following chipsets.

* NVIDIA: Nforce Series chipsets
* ATI: Radeon Xpress Series chipsets
* VIA: K8 Series chipsets
* SiS: 75x Series chipsets or greater

MODEL	FREQUENCY	CMOS	L2 CACHE	POWER
6000+	3.0GHz	90nm SOI	2MB	125W
5600+	2.9GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	65W
5400+	2.8GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	65W
5200+	2.7GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	65W
5000+	2.6Ghz	65nm SOI	1MB	65W
4800+	2.5GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	65W
4600+	2.4GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	65W
4850e	2.5GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	45W
4450e	2.3GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	45W
4050e	2.1GHz	65nm SOI	1MB	45W