AMD A10-7800 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

A10-7800 vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the A10-7800 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7800 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-7800 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7800 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. In terms of cache, the A10-7800 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon II X4 640

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A10-7800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.