Intel Core i3-4330 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i3-4330 vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4330 is faster than the Phenom II X4 945. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4330. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4330. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945.

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.