AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Ryzen 3 2200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2200U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 2200U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 2200U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 2200U

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 Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.