AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Athlon II X4 640 vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6498DU in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6498DU has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6498DU. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU

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 X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.