Comparison of AMD Athlon II X2 370K and AMD Phenom II X2 B59

Attribute	AMD Phenom II X2 B59 ×	AMD Athlon II X2 370K ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD Phenom II	AMD Athlon II
Model	AMD Phenom II X2 B59	AMD Athlon II X2 370K
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	3.4	4
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	DDR2-1066	DDR3-1866
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2011	2013
Technology (Nm)	-	32
Socket	AM3	FM2
Virtualization	amd-rvi amd-v	amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	6	1
Architecture	Callisto	Richland
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	80	65
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	2,188	2,170
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	89	90
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	172	147
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.03	1
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2.02	2
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,834	1,771
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3,381	2,511