Intel Core i5-4310M vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i5-4310M vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Core i5-4310M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4310M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4310M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4310M.

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 i5-4310M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.