AMD A6-6400K vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

A6-6400K vs Athlon II X2 220 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-6400K performs better than the Athlon II X2 220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X2 220 has significantly more cores with 2 cores compared to the A6-6400K that has 1 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A6-6400K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 220. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A6-6400K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.