Intel Core i3-4340 vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i3-4340 vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 B50 beats the Core i3-4340 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4340 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4340 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4340 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 B50.

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