Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1551.00
$ 58.02
$ 1492.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1258 points
1373 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2455 points
2505 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

936 points
1054 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points
1011 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1575 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1135 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
350 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.9 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

880th of 1,089
847th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-8145U vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 635 is faster than the Core i3-8145U. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-8145U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8145U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 635 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8145U

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 i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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