Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i3-8130U vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8130U performs better than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8130U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8130U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8130U

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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.