Intel Core i5-3210M vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Core i5-3210M vs Athlon II X2 220 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3210M performs better than the Athlon II X2 220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-3210M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3210M.

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 i5-3210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.