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 Core i5-4300M performs better than the Athlon II X4 651. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

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.