AMD A6-7310 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

A6-7310 vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X2 240 performs better than the A6-7310. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-7310 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A6-7310 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon II X2 240 that 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 A6-7310. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 A6-7310 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.