Intel Core i5-4300M vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i5-4300M vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4300M beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 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 i5-4300M. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4300M. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4300M.

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 i5-4300M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.