Intel Core i3-4330 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i3-4330 vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-4330 performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4330 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 640.

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