Intel Pentium 3825U vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Pentium 3825U vs Athlon II X2 220 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 3825U beats the Athlon II X2 220 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Pentium 3825U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X2 220 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 3825U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X2 220 has more L2 cache than the Pentium 3825U

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 Pentium 3825U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.