Intel Pentium 3825U vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Compare Intel Pentium 3000 Series 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

768 points

2% slightly better overall score

750 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1453 points

1634 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

581 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

535 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

558 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

514 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

848 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

519 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

292 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

696 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

511 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

341 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

299 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.8 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,011th of 1,089

1,018th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium 3000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Pentium 3825U vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium 3825U is faster 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 Pentium 3825U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 3825U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X2 240 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium 3825U

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