Intel Core i3-4150 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i3-4150 vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4150 is faster than the Athlon II X4 651. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4150. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4150. 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 651.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-4150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.