Intel Core i5-2410M vs AMD FX-9800P

Core i5-2410M vs FX-9800P specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9800P performs better than the Core i5-2410M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2410M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-9800P has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-2410M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9800P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2410M. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9800P has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-2410M

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.