Intel Core i5-4200U vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i5-4200U vs Athlon II X3 425 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X3 425 is faster than the Core i5-4200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-4200U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-4200U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 425 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200U.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-4200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.