Intel Core i3-3220 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i3-3220 vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 640 is faster than the Core i3-3220. Despite this, the Core i3-3220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3220 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640.

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.