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 Athlon II X3 425 is faster than the Core i5-4210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210U 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 i5-4210U 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.