Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i5-12600K vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12600K performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores than the Athlon II X4 640. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Athlon II X4 640. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X4 640. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.