AMD Athlon II X2 240 vs AMD PRO A10-8730B

Athlon II X2 240 vs PRO A10-8730B comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the PRO A10-8730B is faster than the Athlon II X2 240. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the PRO A10-8730B has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon II X2 240 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 240. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the PRO A10-8730B. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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. For instance, the Athlon II X2 240 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.