Intel Core i5-3380M vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i5-3380M vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3380M performs better than the Athlon II X4 651. Despite this, the Athlon II X4 651 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-3380M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3380M.

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 i5-3380M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.