AMD A6-6400K vs AMD Athlon II X2 245

A6-6400K vs Athlon II X2 245 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-6400K is faster than the Athlon II X2 245. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 245 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X2 245 has significantly more cores than the A6-6400K. Indeed, the Athlon II X2 245 has 2 cores compared to 1 cores found in the A6-6400K. 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 245. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same 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. Indeed, the A6-6400K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.