AMD Athlon II X2 240 vs Intel Pentium E5400

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium E5400

Price

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$ 24.95

$ 24.05 significantly less expensive

$ 49.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

750 points

1% slightly better overall score

738 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1634 points

3% slightly better gaming score

1578 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

535 points

0.56% slightly better multitasking score

532 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

514 points

0.78% slightly better heavy workload score

510 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

511 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

502 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

299 points

309 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,018th of 1,089

1,021st of 1,089

Family

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Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Athlon II X2 240 vs Pentium E5400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X2 240 performs better than the Pentium E5400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium E5400 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium E5400. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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