AMD Athlon II X2 220 vs Intel Core i9-14900KS

Athlon II X2 220 vs Core i9-14900KS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900KS beats the Athlon II X2 220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Athlon II X2 220 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-14900KS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X2 220. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900KS has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

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 Athlon II X2 220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.