Intel Core i3-8109U vs AMD Athlon II X3 445

Core i3-8109U vs Athlon II X3 445 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-8109U beats the Athlon II X3 445 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 445 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i3-8109U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i3-8109U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8109U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8109U

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 i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.