Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core 2 Duo E7500 vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E7500 is faster than the Athlon II X3 425. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 425 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo E7500. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 425 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E7500. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E7500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E7500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X3 425. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E7500 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X3 425

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 Core 2 Duo E7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.