Intel Core i3-1005G1 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i3-1005G1 vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1005G1 beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-1005G1 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1005G1. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-1005G1

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. Indeed, the Core i3-1005G1 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.