Comparison of AMD Phenom II X2 B57 and AMD Phenom II X2 B59

Attribute	AMD Phenom II X2 B59 ×	AMD Phenom II X2 B57 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD Phenom II	AMD Phenom II
Model	AMD Phenom II X2 B59	AMD Phenom II X2 B57
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	3.4	3.2
CPU Threads	2	2
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
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	DDR2-1066
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2011	2010
Socket	AM3	AM3
Virtualization	amd-rvi amd-v	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	6	6
Architecture	Callisto	Callisto
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	80	80
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	2,188	2,060
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	89	84
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	172	162
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.03	0.97
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2.02	1.9
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,834	1,726
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3,381	3,182