Intel Core i7-8500Y vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Core i7-8500Y vs Athlon II X2 220 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X2 220 beats the Core i7-8500Y in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8500Y in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-8500Y has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 220 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8500Y.

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 i7-8500Y has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.