Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i5-7200U vs Athlon II X3 450 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7200U is faster than the Athlon II X3 450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i5-7200U that has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-7200U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7200U.

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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.