Athlon II X4 600e: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Athlon II X4 600e sales 20 October 2009 at a recommended price of $130. This is a Propus architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2.2 and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM3 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

Athlon II X4 600e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking	2383
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.07
Market segment	Desktop processor
Power efficiency	2.37	of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codename	Propus (2009−2011)
Release date	20 October 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$130	of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	4
Base clock speed	2.2 GHz	of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed	2.2 GHz	of 50 MHz (i486DX-50)
L1 cache	128 KB (per core)	of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache	512 KB (per core)	of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache	0 KB	of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography	45 nm	of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size	169 mm2
Number of transistors	300 million	of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II X4 600e 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 configuration	1	of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
Socket	AM3
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	of 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon II X4 600e's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Athlon II X4 600e.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version

2.0

of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon II X4 600e. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

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Closest competitors

Athlon II X4 600e's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.

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