Intel Core i3-4150 vs AMD FX-870K

Core i3-4150 vs FX-870K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-870K performs better than the Core i3-4150. Despite this, the Core i3-4150 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4150.

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.