Intel Core i3-540 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Core i3-540 vs Athlon II X2 220 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X2 220 beats the Core i3-540 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-540 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-540 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-540 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 220.

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 i3-540 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.