AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U vs AMD Phenom II X2 555

Last updated: 2024-04-12

CPU comparison with benchmarks


AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U		AMD Phenom II X2 555
CPU comparison AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U or AMD Phenom II X2 555 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.70 GHz. Up to 64 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U was released in Q2/2022. The AMD Phenom II X2 555 has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Phenom II X2 555 was released in Q2/2010.

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO (21)	Family	AMD Phenom II (52)
AMD Ryzen 6000U/7035U (9)	CPU group	AMD Phenom II - 545 (9)
5	Generation	2
Rembrandt (Zen 3+)	Architecture	Callisto (K10)
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.70 GHz (4.70 GHz). The AMD Phenom II X2 555 has 2 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.20 GHz.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X2 555
8	Cores	2
16	Threads	2
normal	Core architecture	normal
Yes	Hyperthreading	No
No	Overclocking ?	Yes
2.70 GHz	Frequency	3.20 GHz
4.70 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	--
--	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	--

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X2 555
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
AMD Radeon 680M	GPU	no iGPU
2.00 GHz	GPU frequency	--
2.20 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
9	GPU Generation	--
6 nm	Technology
3	Max. displays
12	Compute units	--
768	Shader	--
Yes	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
8 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
12	DirectX Version	--

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
AMD Radeon 680M	GPU	no iGPU
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
Decode	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	No
Decode	Codec VC-1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U supports a maximum of 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Phenom II X2 555 can connect up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X2 555
LPDDR5-6400, DDR5-4800	Memory	DDR3-1333, DDR2-1066
64 GB	Max. Memory
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
76.8 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	21.3 GB/s
No	ECC	No
4.00 MB	L2 Cache	--
16.00 MB	L3 Cache	6.00 MB
4.0	PCIe version	--
12	PCIe lanes	--
23.6 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	--
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U has a TDP of 15 W, that of the AMD Phenom II X2 555 is 80 W.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X2 555
15 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	80 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
28 W	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
105 °C	Tjunction max.	--
Technical details The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U has a 20.00 MB cache, while the AMD Phenom II X2 555 cache has a total of 6.00 MB.
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X2 555
6 nm	Technology	45 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Unknown
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	ISA extensions	SSE3, SSE4a
FP7	Socket	AM3
AMD-V, SVM	Virtualization	AMD-V
Yes	AES-NI	No
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2022	Release date	Q2/2010
--	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U (100%)

AMD Phenom II X2 555 (28%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U (100%)

AMD Phenom II X2 555 (10%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	1469 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	409 (28%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	7365 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	767 (10%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	20915 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	2060 (10%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	81 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	485 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	1587 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	13421 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	1899 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	8237 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	595 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	5486 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	0 (0%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.20 GHz	3379 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	290 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	84 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U 8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Phenom II X2 555 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	162 (100%)

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