AMD Athlon II X3 435

older Released October, 2009

2.9 GHz
Tri core

3.2 Out of 10 CPUBoss Score		At this price point, you can't afford to be picky. by Tech Radar (Sep, 2010) I wanted to see how far i could push this baby so i shot for 4.1Ghz @ 1.52v and it was rock solid throughout without so much as even a single BSOD. by PunkX-1 (Dec, 2011)

	Performance
	Benchmark performance using all cores
Athlon II X3 435 3.4 Phenom II X3 720 3.5 FX 4100 4.1
PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated, PassMark and 1 more

	Single-core Performance
	Individual core benchmark performance
Athlon II X3 435 2.7 Phenom II X3 720 2.7 FX 4100 4.5
PassMark (Single Core), Geekbench 3 Single Core and 1 more

	Integrated Graphics
	Integrated GPU performance for graphics
Athlon II X3 435 0.0 Phenom II X3 720 0.0 FX 4100 0.0
Fire Strike

	Integrated Graphics (OpenCL)
	Integrated GPU performance for parallel computing
Athlon II X3 435 0.0 Phenom II X3 720 0.0 FX 4100 0.0
CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 4 more

	Performance per Watt
	How efficiently does the processor use electricity?
Athlon II X3 435 4.1 Phenom II X3 720 4.2 FX 4100 4.8
Fire Strike, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

	Value
	Are you paying a premium for performance?
Athlon II X3 435 n.d. Phenom II X3 720 n.d. FX 4100 6.1
Fire Strike, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

3.2	CPUBoss Score
	Combination of all six facets
Athlon II X3 435 3.2 Phenom II X3 720 3.3 FX 4100 4.5

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
3,997

5,176

Phenom II X3 720

4,130

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
1,512

1,827

Phenom II X3 720

1,552

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
117,000 MB/s

2,150,000 MB/s

Phenom II X3 720

119,600 MB/s

GeekBench (32-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
3,833

4,993

Phenom II X3 720

3,694

GeekBench (64-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
5,394

Phenom II X3 720

4,192

5,580

GeekBench

Athlon II X3 435
5,394

6,919

Phenom II X3 720

5,726

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

Athlon II X3 435
2,472

4,051

Phenom II X3 720

2,691

PassMark (Single Core)

Athlon II X3 435
1,004

1,221

Phenom II X3 720

970


	6.0 read review	As for Intel chips, it will be interesting to see if the Athlon II X3 makes for a realistic cut price alternative to some of Intel's latest dual-core, quad-thread processors such as the Core i5 661.

	9.4 read review	Right now I'm running it at 3.7GHz, up from the original 2.9GHz, and all my games like Bad Company 2, Mafia 2, Deus Ex, Team Fortress 2 run extremely smooth.

Overall	7.7 Out of 10

Multicore

Because it's based on the quad-core Propus processor, it's possible to unlock the fourth and final core.

by Tech Radar (Sep, 2010)

Unfortunately, the 4th core was unstable.

by PunkX-1 (Dec, 2011)

You've got a higher clocking quad-core chip, gratis.

by Tech Radar (Sep, 2010)

Socket Type

But the difference is small enough to be academic: 37 frames per second compared to 35 in World of Conflict.

by Tech Radar (Sep, 2010)

The X3 435 that i had bought for my dad's computer is clocked at a modest 2.9Ghz with 1.5 MB L2 cache and a TDP count of 95W.

by PunkX-1 (Dec, 2011)

I had upgraded to this processor from a Core 2 Duo E4500 and my jaw dropped as i saw average frames shoot right up and encoding time shoot right down.

by PunkX-1 (Dec, 2011)

Price

I'm sure that this CPU will bottleneck much more powerful cards, but for the price, this processor cannot be beat.

by Frank08 (Nov, 2011)

Put simply, you'll get your video encoding and content creation sessions finished faster with the cheaper quad-core chip.

by Tech Radar (Sep, 2010)

Applications

But after using it, I have not seem any dramatic decrease in the games that I play.

by Frank08 (Nov, 2011)

However, as time passed by and people started noticing the numbers the X3 had started raking in, in games and multi-theaded apps alike, it became an instant smash.

by PunkX-1 (Dec, 2011)

Socket

It's certainly up against some pretty stiff in-house competition from the likes of the quad-core AMD Athlon II X4 620.

by Tech Radar (Sep, 2010)

summary

Clock speed	2.9 GHz
Cores	Tri core
Socket type	AM3
Is unlocked	No

features

Has a NX bit	Yes
Has virtualization support	Yes
Instruction set extensions	MMX SSE SSE2 3DNow! SSE4a SSE3
Supports dynamic frequency scaling	Yes

integrated graphics

GPU	None
Label	None
Latest DirectX	None
Number of displays supported	None
GPU clock speed	None
Turbo clock speed	None
3DMark06	None

bus

Clock speed	2,000 MHz

details

Architecture	x86-64
Threads	3 threads
L2 cache	2 MB
L2 cache per core	0.67 MB/core
L3 cache	0.5 MB
L3 cache per core	0.17 MB/core
Manufacture process	45 nm
Max CPUs	1
Operating temperature	Unknown - 73°C

overclocking

Overclock popularity	13
Overclock review score	5
Overclocked clock speed	3.63 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water)	2.9 GHz
PassMark (Overclocked)	2,624.3
Overclocked clock speed (Air)	3.63 GHz

power consumption

TDP	95W
Annual home energy cost	49.5 $/year
Annual commercial energy cost	137.53 $/year
Performance per watt	0.74 pt/W
Idle power consumption	83.7W
Peak power consumption	157W
Typical power consumption	138.68W

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