Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Core 2 Duo E8400 vs Athlon II X2 220 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E8400 beats the Athlon II X2 220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 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 Core 2 Duo E8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X2 220. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

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 Core 2 Duo E8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.