Intel Core i5-4310M vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i5-4310M vs Athlon II X4 651 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 651 is faster than the Core i5-4310M. Despite this, the Core i5-4310M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4310M. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4310M. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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.