AMD Athlon II X2 220 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Athlon II X2 220 vs Athlon II X2 240 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X2 240 is faster 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X2 240. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Athlon II X2 220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.