Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Athlon II X4 640

Price

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$ 1918.00

$ 48.02

$ 1869.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points

1463 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

2725 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

1108 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

1060 points

0.66% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

147% significantly higher Blender score

15.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

943 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

308 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

948 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

846th of 1,118

841st of 1,118

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 640 performs better than the Core i5-6300HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300HQ 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 II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300HQ.

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. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.