Intel Core i5-5257U vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i5-5257U vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-5257U is faster than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-5257U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5257U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 635 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-5257U

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 i5-5257U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.