Intel Core i5-5300U vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Core i5-5300U vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-5300U is faster than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5300U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 760K has more L2 cache than the Core i5-5300U

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 i5-5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.