AMD A6-5200 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

A6-5200 vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X2 240 beats the A6-5200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-5200 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A6-5200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon II X2 240 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 240. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A6-5200. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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. For instance, the A6-5200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.