AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 is faster than the Athlon II X4 640. 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 Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores than the Athlon II X4 640. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Athlon II X4 640. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X4 640. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

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 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.