AMD Athlon II X3 450 vs Intel Core i5-6198DU

Athlon II X3 450 vs Core i5-6198DU benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6198DU beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i5-6198DU that has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-6198DU has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6198DU. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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 450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.