AMD Athlon II X4 651 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Athlon II X4 651 vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 651 beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6498DU has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6498DU. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6498DU. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6498DU

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