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 Core i5-3380M 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.

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.