Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i5-7200U vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 651 is faster than the Core i5-7200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7200U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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.