AMD Athlon X2 microprocessor

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Quietly released in October 2009, this Athlon X2 5000+ CPU is the first Athlon X2-branded microprocessor manufactured in 0.045 micron technology. Besides more modern manufacturing process and newer core, there some other differences between this CPU and all other Athlon X2 processors with 7xxx model numbers, based on Kuma core. The advantage of the Athlon X2 5000+ processor is 30% lower power consumption. The disadvantage of the 5000+ CPU is the absence of the level 3 cache. The lack of the L3 cache, and 200 MHz lower core frequency, are the main reasons why this microprocessor performs by up to 10% slower than model 7450, which is the second slowest Athlon X2 microprocessor. The last important difference between this 5000+ CPU and other Kuma processors is in CPU's model number. This microprocessor's model number is a performance rating similar to older Athlon 64 / 64 X2 CPUs. All other Athlon X2 Kuma CPUs have newer model numbers, that can only be used to tell which processor is faster within specific CPU family, but not how much it is faster.