Intel Core i5-4210U vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

904 points
1399 points
54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1741 points
2628 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

681 points
1061 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

654 points
1018 points
55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.60 points
19.35 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1338 points
1399 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

689 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
502 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1460 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1117 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

764 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
123% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

983rd of 1,089
840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-4210U vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 760K performs better than the Core i5-4210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210U.

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

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