Intel Core i5-5200U vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Core i5-5200U vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5200U beats the Athlon II X2 240 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 240 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-5200U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5200U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X2 240 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-5200U

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 i5-5200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.