Intel Core i3-4330 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i3-4330 vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 651 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 651 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 651.

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.