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AMD Athlon II X4 Serie Review (Processor)
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The score of A is reached using 0 different tests on the AMD Athlon II X4 Serie (s).
Average score of all processors: B.
Average score of all processors: B.
Product specs:
Processor Type: Athlon 64 X4; Processor clock speed: 2600MHz; Sockt Type: Socket AM3; Platform: PC; Processor Cores: Quad - Core; Retail Packaging: No
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Publication date 11/2009 Single test |
"... Compared with the equivalently clocked Phenom II X4 810, the X4 620 was a huge 17 points slower. This is because a small cache makes it hard for the processor to deal efficiently with multiple intensive tasks. On the plus side, it matched the X4 810 in our video encoding test, despite costing around £50 less. It was also slower than most in games ... If your budget is tight and you want a quad-core processor specifically for video encoding, the X4 620 is a bargain. However, this is rather a niche requirement. ... An amazingly cheap quad-core processor, but its small cache means it's not an all-rounder."
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Issue 12/2009 Single test |
"PCFormat Gold Award"
PC Format describe the Athlon II X4 620's price as incredible and the performance of the processor as impressive, offering effective overclocking. The mag would not particularly recommend the chip to gamers, however.
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Publication date 10/2009 Position 1/15 in test |
"AMD has introduced a solid quad-core processor for the masses with its Athlon II X4 620. On paper, this CPU is similar to a Phenom II X4 810, stripped of it's L3 cache and given a slight HyperTransport speed boost (of course, we know it centers on a smaller, more economical Propus die). In our testing, the Athlon II X4 620 demonstrated clear dominance over comparably-priced CPUs in apps and games that can take advantage of multiple threads."
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Publication date 10/2009 2 products on test |
"Comparing price against performance makes it crystal clear that true budget-minded users shouldn’t (and probably wouldn't) consider the Phenom II X4. The Phenom II X4 945 (3.0 GHz) starts at $170, while the new sub-$100 Athlon II X4 trails fairly close behind on performance when all other system factors are equal. AM2+ models of the Phenom II X4 may start at $150 (Phenom II X4 940), but they don’t provide DDR3 support."
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AMD Athlon II X4 620
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Publication date 10/2009 Single test |
"For: Incredible pricing. Impressive performance. Effective overclocking.
Against: Not quite the gamer's chip du jour."
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Publication date 9/2009 Single test |
"As expected, the Athlon II X4 620 at 2.6 GHz is far from being a high-performance part. Traditional applications without optimizations for multi-core architectures (Far Cry, Left 4 Dead, WinZip, PDF creation) run well, but not particularly quickly due to the limited clock speed. Consequently, a Core 2 Duo at high clock speeds remains a better (albeit more expensive) choice. Strongly threaded applications, however, do amazingly well on this new entry-level AMD chip. There are several benchmarks in which the new Athlon II X4 massively outperforms its dual-core competition."
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Publication date 9/2009 Single test |
Value for money: "excellent" 6 out of 6 stars,
"Recommended"
"Nothing incredible in terms of design, but it's an impressively cheap way to get quad-core in your PC."
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