AMD A10-7850K vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 134.99
$ 48.02
$ 86.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points
1463 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points
2727 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points
1106 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points
1058 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
15.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1597 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
943 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
308 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1137 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

860th of 1,089
819th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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A10-7850K vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 640 is faster than the A10-7850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A10-7850K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 640. The info from our database shows that the A10-7850K has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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