Intel Core i7-3537U vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Core i7-3537U vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3537U performs better than the Athlon II X2 240. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3537U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3537U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3537U

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 i7-3537U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.