Core i3-8130U vs Athlon II X3 450 specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X3 450 beats the Core i3-8130U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8130U. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8130U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8130U
Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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