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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