Intel Core i3-7020U vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i3-7020U vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 651 is faster than the Core i3-7020U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7020U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7020U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7020U.

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 i3-7020U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.