Intel Pentium 6405U vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Pentium 6405U vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium 6405U performs better than the Athlon II X3 425. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 425 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Pentium 6405U that has 2 cores. Despite this, the Pentium 6405U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425.

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 6405U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.