Intel Core i3-4340 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i3-4340 vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4340 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4340 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4340 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945.

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 i3-4340 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.