Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 v3 performs better than the Athlon II X2 240. 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 Xeon E5-2650 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Athlon II X2 240 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 240. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3.

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 Xeon E5-2650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.