Intel Celeron G5905 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Compare Intel Celeron G Series 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Athlon II X4 640

Price

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$ 73.97

$ 48.02

$ 25.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1456 points

1463 points

0.48% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3182 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2725 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1038 points

1108 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

996 points

1060 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.47 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

15.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1263 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

948 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

738 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

842nd of 1,118

841st of 1,118

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Celeron G5905 vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 640 is faster than the Celeron G5905. Despite this, the Celeron G5905 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Celeron G5905. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron G5905. It also has more threads than the Celeron G5905. With our hardware info, we find that the Celeron G5905 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 640.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Celeron G5905 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.