Intel Core i5-4200M vs AMD Athlon II X3 445

Core i5-4200M vs Athlon II X3 445 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4200M is faster than the Athlon II X3 445. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 445 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-4200M has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-4200M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4200M.

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 i5-4200M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.