Comparison of AMD Athlon II X2 370K and AMD Phenom II X2 B55

Attribute	AMD Athlon II X2 370K ×	AMD Phenom II X2 B55 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD Phenom II
Model	AMD Athlon II X2 370K	AMD Phenom II X2 B55
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	4	3
CPU Threads	2	2
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.2	-
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	4.2	-
Encryption
AES-NI	-	-
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1866	DDR2-1066
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2009
Technology (Nm)	32	-
Socket	FM2	AM3
Virtualization	amd-v	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	1	6
Architecture	Richland	Callisto
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	65	80
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	2,170	1,931
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	90	79
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	147	152
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1	0.91
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2	1.78
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,771	1,618
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,511	2,983