AMD ATHLON X2 280 AMD Athlon X2 280 CPU against AMD Athlon X2 270 CPU. AMD Athlon X2 280 is Regor and AMD Athlon X2 270 is Regor. AMD Athlon X2 280 is clocked at 3600Mhz and AMD Athlon X2 270 is clocked at 3400Mhz. AMD Athlon X2 280 has 2 Cores and 2 Threads. AMD Athlon X2 270 has 2 Cores and 2 Threads. Benchmarks for testing AMD Athlon X2 280 and AMD Athlon X2 270 are:- DivX, Dragon Age, PovRay, Media Encoder, Sysmark 2007, World of Warcraft."