Intel Core i3-4330 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i3-4330 vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4330 beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4330 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635.

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 i3-4330 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.