AMD Athlon II X2 250 [Review]

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AMD Athlon II X2 250 [Review]

Roydon Cerejo, Jul 03, 2009 1459 hrs IST

AMD's latest budget processor gives you bang for buck

Good performance, low power consumption, AM3 support, competitively priced

Average overclocker

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ScienceMark 2.0

This is another benchmarking tool used to stress the system by performing resource-intensive scientific calculations. It supports MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow and Hyper-Threading technologies and multi-processor systems.

Cinebench 10

Cinebench is a real-world test suite that assesses your computer's performance capabilities. The test procedure consists of two main components: The first test sequence is dedicated to the computer's main processor. A 3D scene file is used to render a photo-realistic image. The scene makes use of various CPU-intensive features such as reflection, ambient occlusion, area lights and procedural shaders. We ran this for both, single CPU and multiple CPU's, which is comparable across any operating system.