Intel Core i5-4570T vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 149.95
$ 48.02
$ 101.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1353 points
1463 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2692 points
2727 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1004 points
1106 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

964 points
1058 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.50 points
93% significantly higher Blender score
15.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1888 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
943 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

984 points
219% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
308 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2010 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points
232% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz
3 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

854th of 1,089
819th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-4570T vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 640 is faster than the Core i5-4570T. Despite this, the Core i5-4570T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4570T. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4570T. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4570T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-4570T

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-4570T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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