Intel Core i5-10210U vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i5-10210U vs Athlon II X4 651 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10210U beats the Athlon II X4 651 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-10210U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10210U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 651 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U

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 i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.