Intel Core i5-5200U vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i5-5200U vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-5200U is faster than the Athlon II X3 425. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 425 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-5200U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-5200U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5200U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X3 425 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-5200U

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