Intel Core i3-4160 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i3-4160 vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4160 beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4160 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4160 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 640.

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 i3-4160 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.