Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i3-8145U vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 651 is faster than the Core i3-8145U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8145U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8145U. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8145U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 651 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8145U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 651 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.