Intel Core i5-3320M vs AMD Athlon II X3 445

Core i5-3320M vs Athlon II X3 445 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3320M performs better than the Athlon II X3 445. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 445 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-3320M has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-3320M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3320M. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-3320M

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 i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.