Intel Core i3-4370 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Core i3-4370 vs Athlon Gold 3150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Gold 3150U beats the Core i3-4370 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4370 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4370 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon Gold 3150U. The Athlon Gold 3150U outputs less heat than Core i3-4370 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-4370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.