Intel Core i5-5257U vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i5-5257U vs FX-9830P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5257U beats the FX-9830P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-9830P 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5257U. In terms of cache, the FX-9830P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-5257U

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-5257U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.