Intel Pentium E5800 vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Pentium E5800 vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X3 425 beats the Pentium E5800 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium E5800 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 E5800 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium E5800. Our comparison shows that the Pentium E5800 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X3 425. The info from our database shows that the Pentium E5800 has more L2 cache 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. For instance, the Pentium E5800 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.