Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Core 2 Quad Q8200 vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 beats the Athlon II X2 240 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon II X2 240 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 240. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q8200. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 Quad Q8200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.