Intel Core i3-4330 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Core i3-4330 vs Athlon X4 870K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4330 is faster than the Athlon X4 870K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 870K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4330. A Core i3-4330 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-4330 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.