Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Core 2 Duo E8200 vs Athlon II X2 240 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X2 240 is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Duo E8200. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8200 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 240

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 Core 2 Duo E8200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.