Athlon 64 X2 5600+ vs E-300

Place in the ranking	3207	2832
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD E-Series	no data
Power efficiency	1.10	0.61
Architecture codename	Zacate (2011−2013)	Windsor (2006−2007)
Release date	22 August 2011 (13 years ago)	December 2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

E-300 and Athlon 64 X2 5600+ basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Boost clock speed	1.3 GHz	2.9 GHz
L1 cache	64K (per core)	256 KB
L2 cache	512K (per core)	512K
L3 cache	0 KB	0 KB
Chip lithography	40 nm	90 nm
Die size	75 mm²	220 mm²
Number of transistors	no data	227 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on E-300 and Athlon 64 X2 5600+ compatibility with other computer components: 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	1
Socket	FT1	AM2
Power consumption (TDP)	18 Watt	89 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by E-300 and Athlon 64 X2 5600+. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SVM

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Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by E-300 and Athlon 64 X2 5600+ are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by E-300 and Athlon 64 X2 5600+. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

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Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon HD 6310

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Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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.

E-300 0.21

Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 0.57
+171%

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.

E-300 340

Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 903
+166%

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.

E-300 88

Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 231
+163%

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.

E-300 152

Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 401
+164%