Intel Core i5-2400S vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Athlon II X4 640

Price

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$ 70.00

$ 48.02

$ 21.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1557 points

6% slightly better overall score

1463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2888 points

5% slightly better gaming score

2725 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1185 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1108 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1138 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1060 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

15.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1415 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

943 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

308 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1360 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

948 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

504 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

820th of 1,118

841st of 1,118

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2400S vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2400S 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.

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 Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2400S.

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. For instance, the Core i5-2400S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.