AMD 45nm Phenom II X2 550 finally hit stores in accompany with its brother Phenom II X2 545 in Chinese market at the end of July.Phenom II X2 545 is clocked at 3.0GHz,100MHz lower than 550.Non-black edition 545 is priced at $94.This cost-effective CPU bound draw more consumersattention.
It is known that Phenom II X2 550 is destined to compete against Core 2 E7400.While AthlonII X2 250 amis to fight back Pentium E6300.Hence Phenom II X2 545 will face up to upcoming Pentium E6500.So we make a comparison test.
Apart from two protagonists,two costars are also involved in this fierce competition.They are Athlon II X2 250 and Core 2 E7400,respectively. Closely look at their specs,we can find AthlonII X2 250 has the same frequency as Phenom II X2 545.Their only difference lies in cache structure.In addition,2.93GHz Pentium E6500 has smaller cache capacity than 2.8GHz Core 2 E7400. Now a problem may be put forward.Whether Core 2 E7400 has purchase value after the shipment of Pentium E6500.That is why we choose them as comparison objects.