Intel Core i3-4150 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i3-4150 vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4150 is faster than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4150 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4150 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 635.

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 i3-4150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.