AMD Athlon II X2 240 vs Intel Core2 Duo E7500. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus) Intel Core 2 Duo E7000/E8000
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core2 Duo
• Generation
  1 2
• Predecessor
  - No
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Successor
  - No

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

• Base Frequency
  2.8 GHz 2.93 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - No
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

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

• GPU name
  no iGPU -
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core2 Duo E7500 and AMD Athlon II X2 240. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR2-1066 / DDR3-1333
• PCIe
  2.0 -

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 240 and Intel Core2 Duo E7500 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
  - 80 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 65 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - No
• TDP down
  - No
• TDP up
  - No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 240 and Intel Core2 Duo E7500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Propus Wolfdale
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1
• L2-Cache
  2 MB 3 MB
• L3-Cache
  - No
• Release date
  Q3/2009 Q1/2009
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 775
• Technology
  45 nm 45 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x