Intel Core i3-4030U vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Core i3-4030U vs Athlon II X2 240 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4030U beats the Athlon II X2 240 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-4030U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4030U.

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 i3-4030U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.