Intel Core i5-5257U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i5-5257U vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-5257U performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-5257U has 2 cores. 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 i5-5257U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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.