AMD Athlon II X3 445 vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

Athlon II X3 445 vs Core i5-6198DU specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6198DU is faster than the Athlon II X3 445. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 445 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-6198DU has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-6198DU has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6198DU. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X3 445 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6198DU

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 X3 445 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.