Intel Core i5-7500 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Compare Intel 7th 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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$ 73.80

$ 48.02

$ 25.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2458 points

68% significantly better overall score

1463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

67% significantly better gaming score

2727 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

69% significantly better multitasking score

1106 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

69% significantly better heavy workload score

1058 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

203% significantly higher Blender score

15.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3409 points

261% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

943 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1243 points

303% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

308 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3533 points

272% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

948 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1283 points

309% 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

3.4 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,089

819th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7500 vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7500 beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 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 Core i5-7500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500

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. For instance, the Core i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.