Intel Core i7-5600U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i7-5600U vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 640 performs better than the Core i7-5600U. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-5600U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5600U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5600U

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 i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.