AMD A6-7400K vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Athlon II X2 240

Price

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$ 85.23

$ 24.95

$ 60.28 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

762 points

1% slightly better overall score

750 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1703 points

4% slightly better gaming score

1634 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

536 points

0.19% slightly better multitasking score

535 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

513 points

514 points

0.19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

743 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

519 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

292 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

585 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

511 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

408 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

299 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,015th of 1,089

1,018th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-7400K vs Athlon II X2 240 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A6-7400K beats the Athlon II X2 240 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 240 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A6-7400K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 240. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X2 240 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A6-7400K

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 A6-7400K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.