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 Athlon II X4 640 performs better than the Core i3-4330. Despite this, the Core i3-4330 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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.