AMD Athlon II X2 215 vs AMD Athlon 240GE. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus) AMD Athlon 200
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Athlon
• Generation
  1 5
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Form Factor
  - Desktops
• Series
  - Athlon 200 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.7 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 3.5 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 3
• Generation
  - 8
• GPU Frequency
  - 1000 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2018
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 3

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 240GE and AMD Athlon II X2 215. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  16 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR4-2666
• PCIe
  2.0 PCIe 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 2667

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 215 and AMD Athlon 240GE Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 35 W
• Default TDP
  - 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 215 and AMD Athlon 240GE, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Propus Raven Ridge (Zen+)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 1 MB
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2009 Q3/2018
• Socket
  AM3 AM4
• Technology
  45 nm 14nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Raven Ridge
• L1-Cache
  - 0.1875 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  - YD240GC6FBBOX
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  - YD240GC6FBMPK
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - YD240GC6M2OFB
• Operating systems
  - Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit