AMD Athlon II X2 255 introduced

Posted on Monday, September 07 2009 @ 17:57 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TPU spotted that AMD has launched the Athlon II X2 255 processor, a new dual-core Socket AM3 chip based on the 45nm Regor.

The AMD Athlon II X2 255 is clocked at 3.1GHz (15.5 x 200MHz), each core has 1MB L2 cache (2MB total cache) and it has a 65W TDP. The chip supports DDR2 and DDR3 memory, and may replace the Athlon II X2 250.

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