AMD A8-7650K vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

A8-7650K vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-7650K performs better than the Athlon II X4 651. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-7650K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-7650K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 651. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 A8-7650K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.