Intel Core i5-5257U vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1350 points
1399 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2561 points
2628 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1022 points
1061 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

981 points
1018 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.92 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
19.35 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1676 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1399 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

900 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
502 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1788 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1117 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
24.26 MiB
4752% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

856th of 1,089
840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Core i5-5257U vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-5257U performs better than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5257U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 760K 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.

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