AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Athlon II X4 640 vs Phenom II X4 B50 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 B50 beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 640. 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 X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.