Intel Core i3-2130 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i3-2130 vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2130 beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-2130. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-2130. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2130 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 635.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-2130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.