AMD K6-2 500AFX

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The AMD K6-2 stretched to 500MHz. One of the fastest regular K6-2 models (533 and 550MHz models exist too).

Basically the K6-2 ran fine however it did have a few weak spots: a slow FPU so it wasn't really suitable for gaming and that didn't help in reviews. The K6-2, being cheap, was also built into cheap systems which were often more troublesome (and the K6-2 was, unjustified, to blame). Lastly it couldn't keep up with Intel's Celeron-line.

The good thing is that the K6-2 was cheap, ran fine on cheap and/or existing motherboards. Being on the budget it could be a fairly capable system if you didn't want to play FPU-intensive games.

Specifications

Core / Codename

Chompers

Clockfrequency

500MHz

Front Side Bus

100MHz

Multiplier

5x

vCore

2,2V

L1 cache

64KB

L2 cache

None

sSpec

26351

Chip date

0038

Stepping

?

Socket

PGA296

Transistor count

9.3M

Condition

CPU only

Engineering sample?

No

Benchmarks

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