AMD Ryzen 3 4100 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Ryzen 3 4100 vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4100 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 3 4100 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon II X2 240 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 240. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 240. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.