Athlon 64 X2 5000+: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Athlon 64 X2 5000+ sales on May 2006. Based on a Windsor architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 90 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2600 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM2 processor with a TDP of 89 Watt.

Primary details

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameWindsor (2006−2007)
Release dateMay 2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Boost clock speed2.6 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache256 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512 KBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography90 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size220 mm2
Number of transistors154 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 X2 5000+ compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketAM2
Power consumption (TDP)89 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon 64 X2 5000+. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 787

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 195

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 335

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon 64 X2 5000+, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1805 configurations using Athlon 64 X2 5000+ in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1% (18/1805)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.06% (1/1805)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.06% (1/1805)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.3% (5/1805)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.06% (1/1805)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.06% (1/1805)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.1% (2/1805)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.2% (4/1805)
RX 6700 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.06% (1/1805)
RX 6700 Radeon RX 6700
0.06% (1/1805)

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