AMD Athlon II X3 435 

Released October, 2009
  • 2.9 GHz
  • Tri core
3.7 Out of 10

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)

CPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the AMD Athlon II X3 435 among desktop CPUs (over 75W)

Performance

Benchmark performance using all cores
Athlon II X3 435
3.9
Phenom II X4 955
4.6
Phenom II X4 945 95W
4.5
PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated, PassMark and 1 more

Single-core Performance

Individual core benchmark performance
Athlon II X3 435
3.6
Phenom II X4 955
3.9
Phenom II X4 945 95W
3.6
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 X4 955
0.0
Phenom II X4 945 95W
0.0
Fire Strike

Integrated Graphics (OpenCL)

Integrated GPU performance for parallel computing
Athlon II X3 435
0.0
Phenom II X4 955
0.0
Phenom II X4 945 95W
0.0
CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 4 more

Performance per Watt

How efficiently does the processor use electricity?
Athlon II X3 435
4.5
Phenom II X4 955
4.4
Phenom II X4 945 95W
4.7
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 X4 955
6.2
Phenom II X4 945 95W
n.d.
Fire Strike, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more
3.7

CPUBoss Score

Combination of all six facets
Athlon II X3 435
3.7
Phenom II X4 955
4.4
Phenom II X4 945 95W
3.8

Benchmarks Real world tests of the AMD Athlon II X3 435

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
3,997
Phenom II X4 955
5,898
Phenom II X4 945 95W
5,412

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
1,512
Phenom II X4 955
1,679
Phenom II X4 945 95W
1,558

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
117,000 MB/s
Phenom II X4 955
129,850 MB/s
Phenom II X4 945 95W
120,900 MB/s

GeekBench (32-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
3,833
Phenom II X4 955
5,649
Phenom II X4 945 95W
5,183

GeekBench (64-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Athlon II X3 435
5,394
Phenom II X4 945 95W
7,293
Phenom II X4 955
5,696

GeekBench

Athlon II X3 435
5,394
Phenom II X4 955
7,600
Phenom II X4 945 95W
7,293

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

Athlon II X3 435
2,472
Phenom II X4 955
3,960
Phenom II X4 945 95W
3,690

PassMark (Single Core)

Athlon II X3 435
1,004
Phenom II X4 955
1,113
Phenom II X4 945 95W
1,039

Reviews Word on the street for the AMD Athlon II X3 435

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

What People Are Saying Give it to me straight

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)

Specifications Full list of technical specs

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
  1. MMX
  2. SSE
  3. SSE2
  4. 3DNow!
  5. SSE4a
  6. SSE3
Supports dynamic frequency scaling Yes

integrated graphics

GPU 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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