Intel Core i3-4170 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i3-4170 vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4170 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4170. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4170. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.