AMD Phenom II X2 550 vs Intel Core i5-2300. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Phenom II - 545 Intel Core i 2000
• Family
  AMD Phenom II Intel Core i5
• Generation
  2 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3.1 GHz 2.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (4 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 10.1
• Execution units
  - 6
• Generation
  - 6
• GPU Frequency
  - 850 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 2000
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1100 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Release date
  - Q1/2011
• Shader
  - 48
• Technology
  - 32 nm

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 No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-2300 and AMD Phenom II X2 550. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

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

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Phenom II X2 550 and Intel Core i5-2300 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  80 W 95 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Phenom II X2 550 and Intel Core i5-2300, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Callisto (K10) Sandy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2009 Q1/2011
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 1155
• Technology
  45 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT