Intel Core i5-2410M vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i5-2410M vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2410M performs better than the Athlon II X3 425. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 425 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-2410M has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-2410M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2410M. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 i5-2410M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.