Intel Core i5-4300M vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i5-4300M vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 651 performs better than the Core i5-4300M. Despite this, the Core i5-4300M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4300M 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 i5-4300M.

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.