Intel Core i5-4210H vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i5-4210H vs Athlon II X4 651 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 651 performs better than the Core i5-4210H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210H in all gaming tests too.

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 i5-4210H that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210H.

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