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AMD Athlon II X2 250u

Benchmarks for the AMD Athlon II X2 250u can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.

  • The first graph shows the relative performance of the CPU compared to the 10 other common (single) CPUs in terms of PassMark CPU Mark.
  • The 2nd graph shows the value for money, in terms of the CPUMark per dollar.
  • The pricing history data shows the price for a single Processor. For multiple Processors, multiply the price shown by the number of CPUs.

Is the AMD Athlon II X2 250u Good for Gaming?

This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]

AMD Athlon II X2 250u

Description:

Class: Desktop

Socket: AM3

Clockspeed: 1.6 GHz

Cores: 2 Threads: 2

Typical TDP: 25 W

Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 2 x 64 KB
L1 Data Cache: 2 x 64 KB
L2 Cache: 2 x 1024 KB

Other names: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250u Processor

CPU First Seen on Charts: Q1 2010

CPUmark/$Price: 23.98

Overall Rank:
4501st fastest in multithreading out of 5150 CPUs
4135th fastest in single threading out of 5150 CPUs
1308th fastest in out of 1449 Desktop CPUs

Last Price Change: $24.95 USD (2020-12-17)

Average CPU Mark rating
Multithread Rating
598
Single Thread Rating
637
%
Samples: 71*
*Margin for error: Low



PerformanceTest V9
CPU Mark: 995
Thread: 543
%Single thread rating may be higher than the overall rating, thread performance is just one component of the CPU Mark.

CPU Test Suite Average Results for AMD Athlon II X2 250u

Integer Math1,682 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Math1,178 MOps/Sec
Find Prime Numbers4 Million Primes/Sec
Random String Sorting1,658 Thousand Strings/Sec
Data Encryption160.7 MBytes/Sec
Data Compression12,795 KBytes/Sec
Physics67 Frames/Sec
Extended Instructions285 Million Matrices/Sec
Single Thread637 MOps/Sec
From submitted results to PerformanceTest V10 as of 16th of June 2025.

CPU Mark Distribution for AMD Athlon II X2 250u

Submitted Baseline Distribution Graph as of 10th of June 2025


Not Enough Data from Current Version of PerformanceTest to Create Distribution Graph.

From submitted results since PerformanceTest V10 as of 10th of June 2025.

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Last 4 Baselines for AMD Athlon II X2 250u
Most recent listed first
Baseline CPU Mark
BL2211376 - Oct 05 2024
602
BL1940973 - Nov 07 2023
614
BL1594230 - Jul 12 2022
531
BL1566803 - May 15 2022
639
Additional baselines can be obtained using Windows version of PerformanceTest's Manage Baselines feature.
Popular comparisons for AMD Athlon II X2 250u
As of 17th of June 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Average CPU Mark
AMD Athlon II X2 250u
598
Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.20GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
745 (+24.6%)
Intel Core2 Duo E4400 @ 2.00GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
737 (+23.3%)
AMD Athlon Dual Core 4450B vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
723 (+20.8%)
Intel Pentium E2180 @ 2.00GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
680 (+13.7%)
Intel Celeron E1500 @ 2.20GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
626 (+4.6%)
Intel Celeron E3400 @ 2.60GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
883 (+47.5%)
Intel Core2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
774 (+29.4%)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5800+ vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
653 (+9.2%)
AMD Athlon II X2 B24 vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
1,111 (+85.7%)
AMD Athlon II X2 215 vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
998 (+66.9%)
Intel Core2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
975 (+63.0%)
Intel Celeron E3200 @ 2.40GHz vs AMD Athlon II X2 250u
900 (+50.4%)

Is the AMD Athlon II X2 250u Good for Gaming?
As of 17th of June 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor Relative Gaming Score
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D
12,484
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
12,153
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
11,303
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D
10,843
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
10,587
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D
10,487
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
10,277
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
9,805
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
9,768
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
9,656
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K
9,520
Intel Core Ultra 9 285
9,493
AMD Athlon II X2 250u
154