AMD Ryzen 3 3200U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Ryzen 3 3200U vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3200U 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 3200U. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3200U. 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 3200U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3200U

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.