Intel Core i3-2350M vs AMD Athlon II X2 245

Core i3-2350M vs Athlon II X2 245 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2350M performs better than the Athlon II X2 245. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 245 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-2350M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 245 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2350M.

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 Core i3-2350M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.