Core i3-3220 vs Athlon II X3 450 benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3220 beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 450 in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3220. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3220. Despite this, the Core i3-3220 has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X3 450.
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 i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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