Intel Core i3-4160 vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i3-4160 vs FX-9830P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4160 is faster than the FX-9830P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4160 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 FX-9830P.

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