Intel Core i3-4170 vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i3-4170 vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 B50 is faster than the Core i3-4170. Despite this, the Core i3-4170 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4170 that has 2 cores. 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 Phenom II X4 B50.

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.