AMD Athlon II X4 559

Benchmarks for the AMD Athlon II X4 559 can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.

The first graph shows the relative performance of the CPU compared to the 10 other common (single) CPUs in terms of PassMark CPU Mark.
The 2nd graph shows the value for money, in terms of the CPUMark per dollar.
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AMD Athlon II X4 559

Description:

Class: Desktop

Socket:

Clockspeed: 3.4 GHz

Cores: 4 Threads: 4

Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 64 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 64 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 512 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB

Other names: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 559 Processor

CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2013

CPUmark/$Price: NA

Overall Rank:
2834th fastest in multithreading out of 5126 CPUs
2616th fastest in single threading out of 5126 CPUs
829th fastest in out of 1446 Desktop CPUs

Last Price Change: NA

Average CPU Mark rating

Multithread Rating

2652

Single Thread Rating

1397

Samples: 55*
*Margin for error: Low

PerformanceTest V9
CPU Mark: 4,016
Thread: 1,172

CPU Test Suite Average Results for AMD Athlon II X4 559

Integer Math	8,109 MOps/Sec
Floating Point Math	5,837 MOps/Sec
Find Prime Numbers	15 Million Primes/Sec
Random String Sorting	7,514 Thousand Strings/Sec
Data Encryption	710.2 MBytes/Sec
Data Compression	59,805 KBytes/Sec
Physics	191 Frames/Sec
Extended Instructions	1,356 Million Matrices/Sec
Single Thread	1,397 MOps/Sec

From submitted results to PerformanceTest V10 as of 22nd of May 2025.

CPU Mark Distribution for AMD Athlon II X4 559

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From submitted results since PerformanceTest V10 as of 20th of May 2025.

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CPU Mark Relative to Top 10 Common Desktop CPUs
As of 22nd of May 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor	Average CPU Mark
Intel Core i9-13900K		58,697
Intel Core i9-12900K		41,312
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X		39,032
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz		22,138
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X		21,861
Intel Core i5-12400F		19,475
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz		18,174
AMD Ryzen 5 3600		17,708
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz		15,652
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz		14,146
AMD Athlon II X4 559		2,652

CPU Value (CPU Mark / $Price )
As of 22nd of May 2025 - Higher results represent better value
Processor	CPU Mark / $Price
AMD Ryzen 5 3600		233.04
Intel Core i5-12400F		178.68
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X		163.35
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X		161.93
Intel Core i9-13900K		158.64
Intel Core i9-12900K		138.63
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz		51.93
AMD Athlon II X4 559		NA
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz		NA
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz		NA
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz		NA

Single Thread Rating
As of 22nd of May 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor	Average Thread Rating
Intel Core i9-13900K		4,611
Intel Core i9-12900K		4,140
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz		3,902
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz		3,836
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz		3,681
Intel Core i5-12400F		3,478
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X		3,470
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X		3,363
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz		2,921
AMD Ryzen 5 3600		2,563
AMD Athlon II X4 559		1,397

Last 5 Baselines for AMD Athlon II X4 559
Most recent listed first
Baseline	CPU Mark
BL2536908 - Apr 07 2025		2954
BL5014464 - Apr 02 2022		2949
BL1504516 - Jan 27 2022		2769
BL1388172 - Mar 29 2021		2402
BL1346170 - Dec 28 2020		2603

Additional baselines can be obtained using Windows version of PerformanceTest's Manage Baselines feature.

Popular comparisons for AMD Athlon II X4 559
As of 22nd of May 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor	Average CPU Mark
AMD Athlon II X4 559		2,652
AMD A10-6800K APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		3,201 (+20.7%)
AMD A8-6600K APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		2,995 (+12.9%)
AMD FX-4350 Quad-Core vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		3,284 (+23.8%)
AMD A8-7600 APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		3,214 (+21.2%)
AMD A10-7700K APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		3,178 (+19.9%)
AMD A10-6700 APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		3,112 (+17.3%)
AMD A10-6790K APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		3,108 (+17.2%)
Intel Core i5-4200H @ 2.80GHz vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		3,018 (+13.8%)
AMD Athlon X4 760K Quad Core vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		2,997 (+13.0%)
AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		2,991 (+12.8%)
AMD A10-5800K APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		2,955 (+11.4%)
AMD A8-5600K APU vs AMD Athlon II X4 559		2,863 (+8.0%)

Is the AMD Athlon II X4 559 Good for Gaming?
As of 22nd of May 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Processor	Relative Gaming Score
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D		12,499
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D		12,156
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D		11,332
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D		10,845
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K		10,595
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D		10,511
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D		10,282
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D		9,809
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K		9,684
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K		9,520
Intel Core Ultra 9 285		9,446
Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF		9,426
AMD Athlon II X4 559		353

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