Intel Core i3-4010U vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Core i3-4010U vs Athlon II X2 220 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X2 220 performs better than the Core i3-4010U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4010U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-4010U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X2 220 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4010U.

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 i3-4010U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.