Intel Core i3-4160 vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Core i3-4160 vs PRO A8-8670E comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4160 beats the PRO A8-8670E in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8670E in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4160 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4160 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the PRO A8-8670E.

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.