Intel Core i3-4170 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i3-4170 vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4170 beats the Phenom II X4 945 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4170 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945.

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