Digit-Life reviewed another two AMD Socket AM2 processors: Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and Athlon 64 X2 4800+. These are rather interesting because the former has performance rating higher by 200 points due to its 2.6GHz clock rate versus 2.4GHz clock rate of the latter. But the latter has 2MB L2 cache, which is twice as capacious comparing to that of 5000+! Athlon 64 X2 5000+ has only 1MB L2 (512KB per core), while the X2 4800+ Socket AM2 offers us 2MB cache, classic for AMD's top dual-core.

Considering the rather minor difference in performance (and presumably greater difference in price), we can say that Athlon 64 X2 4800+ looks somewhat more attractive than its senior sibling. This mostly has to concern home users (especially gamers!). But, in general, this benchmarking didn't produce any striking surprises. Everything was as expected.