The AMD Athlon X2 7450 was a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in December 2008. It is part of the Athlon X2 lineup, using the Kuma architecture with Socket AM2+. Athlon X2 7450 has 2 MB of L3 cache and operates at 2.4 GHz. AMD is making the Athlon X2 7450 on a 65 nm production node using 450 million transistors. The multiplier is locked on Athlon X2 7450, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 95 W, the Athlon X2 7450 consumes a good deal of power, so decent cooling is needed. For communication with other components in the system, Athlon X2 7450 uses a PCI-Express Gen 2 connection. Although the processor doesn't come with integrated graphics, certain motherboards with compatible chipsets can provide this capability.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Athlon X2 7450, which greatly improves virtual machine performance.