Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Athlon II X2 240 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6400 beats the Athlon II X2 240 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 240 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Pentium Gold G6400 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X2 240. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400

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 Gold G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.