Intel Core i3-4170 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Core i3-4170 vs Athlon II X2 220 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4170 beats the Athlon II X2 220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-4170 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 220.

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 i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.