AMD A10-7800 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

A10-7800 vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

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