Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD Athlon II X3 445

Core i5-7200U vs Athlon II X3 445 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7200U beats the Athlon II X3 445 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 445 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-7200U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-7200U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7200U.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.