Intel Core i3-3110M vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i3-3110M vs Athlon II X3 425 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3110M beats the Athlon II X3 425 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 425 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3110M. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 425 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3110M. Despite this, the Core i3-3110M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 425 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3110M.

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 i3-3110M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.