Intel Core i5-4210U vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i5-4210U vs Athlon II X3 425 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4210U is faster than the Athlon II X3 425. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 425 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-4210U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-4210U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4210U.

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