These days AMD manufactures a lot of models, which differ not only by their frequency, but by the L2 cache capacity and memory controller features, so it's rather difficult to choose a processor by these parameters. Especially if you take into account that the prices of models equal in frequency may differ more than twofold. Considering the increasing popularity of this platform, we thought it would be a good idea to compare all possible AMD64 processors at 2.4 GHz and try to figure out what effect the above mentioned chip parameters have on various applications.

Five AMD Athlon 64 Models ? Which One to Choose?