Intel Core i5-7260U vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i5-7260U vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7260U beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-7260U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-7260U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7260U.

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 i5-7260U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.