Intel Core i5-4210H vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i5-4210H vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 640 is faster than the Core i5-4210H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4210H. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4210H. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210H.

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 i5-4210H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.