AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

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