Intel Core i5-3380M vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i5-3380M vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Core i5-3380M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3380M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-3380M has 2 cores. But they both have 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 i5-3380M.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-3380M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.