Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

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
$ 48.02
$ 1502.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1258 points
1463 points
16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2455 points
2727 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

936 points
1106 points
18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points
1058 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.95 points
52% significantly higher Blender score
15.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1575 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
943 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points
157% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
308 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
3 GHz
42% much 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
819th 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 640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Core i3-8145U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8145U. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8145U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has a much higher clock speed than the Core i3-8145U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8145U

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

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